Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand bouncing, snatching girls battled grimly last week on Manhattan playgrounds for a gold medal. They battled with small rubber balls and tiny iron "jacks."- Under the fatherly eye of the New York World, which was also cocked toward circulation, metropolitan girlhood was summoned to a tournament for the jacks championship of the city. Some squatted, some kneeled, some sat tailor-fashion in the dust. Each one spread her ten jacks, bounced her rubber ball and snatched up one jack, caught her ball, bounced her ball, snatched up another, a third, until she had ten; again she spread (technical term...
Raft & Parachute. In the course of a 3,000-foot parachute drop Marine Corps Corporal Richard L. Huffman inflated a collapsible rubber raft. Near the water, he dropped the raft, dived from the parachute, recovered the parachute, swam to the raft, mounted the rubber seat, unlashed the oars, rowed ashore...
...Porto Rico, over the Windward Islands to British Guiana in South America, south to Brazil, across Brazil to Rio. He helped 108-lb. Paul load into the Port of Brunswick sandwiches, food, coffee, a rifle and cartridges, fishing tackle, mosquito nets, quinine, light boots, knives, signal flares, rubber life raft. These were to save his life if he landed in the jungle...
Harvey S. Firestone, Akron, Ohio, rubber fabricator and exploiter of rubber plantations in Liberia (TIME, Aug. 16, 1926), did not scoff. Said he: "It is no new discovery. It is going to help in increasing production, but not so much as is claimed...
...Thomas Alva Edison scoff. He has been conducting an intricate and extensive series of experiments on some 200 trees, shrubs and other plants that produce a sap with the characteristics of rubber. Mr. Firestone said of him: "No one knows more about rubber than Edison." Said Mr. Edison of the Dutch East Indies report: "There is no doubt that the method will greatly increase output as well as cheapen it. ... I am not working to cheapen rubber. ... I believe enough rubber can be grown in the U. S. to. pull us through [in case of war]. The price...