Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank R. Henderson, president. New York Rubber Exchange, last week accepted as fact a report of vast latex* production from rubber trees cultured in the Dutch East Indies. Buds of exceptional rubber trees had been grafted into trees that normally yielded but three or four pounds of rubber a year. After bud grafting the trees, by report, began to yield enormously, in some cases 100 pounds a year. At such report Arthur A. Judd, writer for the Chicago Journal of Commerce, scoffed: "The exchange president's report on the outcome of the experiment smacks of the fairy tale. Trees...
...enough gas for four hours, but still, S. O. S., S. O. S. S. O. S.! Three steamships in that part of the Pacific opened their drafts and started toward the plane's course. The next message was panicky, "We are landing in the sea. We have a rubber lifeboat but send help." Nothing but silence followed, for hours. At Wheeler Field, near Honolulu, Army planes were readied for the search. The three rescue ships talked back and forth in anxious, inaudible flashes. . . . Four and one-half hours after sending their last cry for help, Flyers Smith and Bronte...
...Salmon Falls, N. H., the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co., maker of rubber tire fabrics and the town's only industry, shut its factory the beginning of this year (TIME, Jan. 31). Work people moved away; storekeepers were obliged to cease business; the New England Public Service Co., which supplied all three groups?factory, employes and purveyors?with electricity, lost customers. The situation showed sharply how all factors in a community depend upon one another...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. stockholders last week ratified by vote the peace-plan that Owen D. Young suggested to them two months ago (TIME, May 23). They had been quarreling for years about the way the company was operated. Last week they approved selling $60,000,000 bonds to replace several current issues; elected 17 directors (who chose seven of their number to be the company's executive committee); re-elected Paul W. Litchfield president...
...Rays. Several speeches set forth the new usefulness of X-rays in studying the crystal structures of pearls, limes, asbestos, butter, wax, etc. The X-ray studies of C. Norman Kemp in England on coal and coke cited, praised. X-raying of the structure of rubber, which is amorphous (noncrystalline) when unstretched and develops fibre-crystals when stretched at various tensions, was noted as a likely road to the discovery of how to make synthetic rubber...