Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lead Pencils. Higher duties asked and objected to. Nathan Bilder of A. W. Faber Pencil and Rubber Goods Co. declared: "It certainly is a display of extreme selfishness when an industry that leads the world and exports more than twice the value of competing importations asks for higher duties to exclude importations amounting to only 2% of consumption...
...statement: "I believe those States bordering on the Gulf of Mexico can grow plant rubber with profit to the farmer, in case of war prices. But it might be possible in the future to grow rubber and compete with the tropics. I have found over 1,200 plants to produce rubber. About 40 of them will be cultivated on a large scale...
Henry Ford has a 22,000-acre plantation near Savannah, Ga., and on it he is cultivating some of his friend's rubber plant selections. Mr. Ford has a rubber tree plantation newly started in Brazil. Mr. Firestone has his own plantation going in Liberia. These and other intimates of Mr. Edison possess little chunks of spongy brown material-Edison's first rubber from U. S. weeds...
...twice to pass out, and on the second assault John Cross '30 received the puck for a beautiful clear drive, but Learnard blocked. With only four minutes left to play, Giddens stick-handled his way down the center lane and, as he reached the University Club defensemen, flipped the rubber back of him to E. T. Putnam '30, who scored on a sharply-angled shot. From then until the final bell, there was a wild scramble in front of the Crimson cage, as the five-man University Club attack vainly attempted to overcome Harvard's winning lead...
...many departments in Harvard College would admit that two-thirds of their candidates for degrees were of honors calibre? If one is to judge by the rubber stamp of departmental approval, the History and Literature field is fortunate in the possession of the men who have chosen...