Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short stick rounded at one end and a hard rubber ball, together with the necessary ice, were all the implements for the first games of "ice polo", as the sport was known in Cambridge in 1896. There were no limits to the rink and so no player could be off side, and the games-generally developed into cross-country chases in which the man with the best wind kept ahead of his foe and scored goals...
...William Trufant Foster, Boston pedagog-economist, director of the Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, and Waddell Catchings, Manhattan manufacturer-financier (shoes, collars, cans, rubber, motors, fruit, cereals, dairy produce, drugs, magazines, cinema), collaborated lately on a book* in which they suggested that all U. S. markets would be steadied if the governmental agencies of the U. S.-federal, state, municipal-would map out and authorize large programs of public work which will be needed eventually though not immediately. Let these programs then be held in abeyance, said the collaborators, until such time as labor and fiscal indices show or predict...
...Brazilian newspaper Folha da Noite launched last week a lurid attack against Henry Ford and his rubber plantation in the State of Para. Charged the Folha da Noite: "Mr. Ford does not give good wages. In Mr. Ford's stores a milreis [$.12] is worth only 400 reis...
...Ford plantations are on the Tapajoz River, tributary of the Amazon. By a contract made last year with the State of Para and the Brazilian Government, Mr. Ford promised to plant 3,000 acres of rubber trees within four years. In return his rubber will be exempt from export taxes for twelve years, and he may import free of duty all materials necessary to the development of his plantation...
...Rubber. This is a chemist's way from coal to rubber: coal, coke, calcium carbide, acetone, isoprene, rubber."This artificial rubber is still much more expensive: than vegetable rubber, nor can it yet be vulcanized...