Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide gamut of present-day business and economic problems. In addition to the general sessions devoted to such broad topics as railroads, European affairs and transportation, many sessions of special groups reviewed the more specific subjects of agricultural credits, modern insurance, the conservation of natural resources, coal, oil and rubber. Even methods of obtaining better postmasters were exhaustively considered. The convention expressed itself as favoring a World Court, an economic conference to settle European affairs and a slight relaxation of present immigration restrictions by the addition of a selected 2%. It sharply opposed government ownership in all its phases...
...many doctors read Printers' Ink? How many brokers ever peruse The Casket? How many barbers devote their spare time to India Rubber Review? Or actors to The Iron...
...addition to perfecting a new process for making and vulcanizing cord tires, Chairman C. B. Seger of the U. S. Rubber Co. announced a new and superior method of obtaining crude rubber itself for general purposes...
Formerly all crude rubber was obtained from the rubber trees by coagulating the sap or " latex" with either smoke or chemicals; inevitably this method left impurities in the product, and sometimes when acids were employed valuable qualities of the original latex were destroyed. But by the new process, the latex is sprayed into a snow-white mist which, placed in contact with superheated air, is deprived of its water, but nothing else. Thus " sprayed rubber" is absolutely pure virgin rubber, remains dry indefinitely, is much stronger than ordinary "crude rubber " and-unlike the latter-is completely uniform in quality...
...complaint of a British corner in rubber made in Congress produced diplomatic exchanges. The Brazilian ambassador announced the willingness of his country to cooperate' with the U. S. Department of Commerce in attracting American capital into the Brazilian rubber industry. Such proposed essays in business provide frequent topics of conversation beside the Potomac. It should be realized, however, that it takes many years to establish rubber plantations, and that in the light of the recent overproduction prospects for such a venture over the next decade are not promising. The great " rubber boom " in London in 1910 was followed...