Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are the gaming tables of lower Manhattan. The gamblers are U. S. traders. The stakes are the world's rich supplies of cotton and rubber, of cocoa and spices and coffee. Near Hanover Square are clustered Manhattan's famed commodity exchanges...
...anti-rakish, antiseptic fun, and they achieved it. The heroine is a mid-western lass who hungers for romance and esthetics. In Venice she tumbles for an insolvent Frenchman whose family dates back to Charlemagne, who would innately prefer Santa Maria della Salute to the First Methodist. Her rubber-company father, distressed, arranges to remove the cultured Gaul to Ohio, hoping Daughter will be disillusioned by his Old World fragrance among robustuous U. S. odors. Chameleon Pierre turns Babbitt, nearly estranges the girl while ingratiating himself with her father, ultimately wins her with a recrudescence of Gallic passion when...
Their coal tar red wrecked the business of Levant farmers who had been raising madder plants for madder red. A similar misfortune befell the indigo plant cultivators of India. In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished. Chile, once boastful of its natural nitrate monopoly is humble. Synthetic rubber is a fact, although heretofore more expensive than Malaya and Sumatra natural rubber...
...last week, tire manufacturers took vigorous action to meet the menace of the mail order houses. Two months ago, the dormant Rubber Institute was brought to life under the directorship of onetime Prohibition Commissioner Lincoln C. Andrews. Its first arresting act was the insertion, last week, of large advertisements in 400 daily newspapers. Speaking for 44 companies, Tsar Andrews pungently flayed the mileage guarantee. This practice, so profitable to mail order houses, was branded thus...
...first reading, this appeared to be saying, in effect: "We guarantee a tire for so long as nothing happens to it." But closer study revealed this meaning: "We guarantee that so long as a tire has enough rubber and cotton to hold it together, it will not fail because of any defect in material or workmanship...