Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again scheduled, but in the past war period it has been with increasing difficulty that the University has held its own. In the last six meetings, the two elevens have split even, each having a string of three successive wins to its credit. Saturday's meeting thus becomes the rubber match for the post war series...
...headed "Fergusons Encourage Crime." In that article I discussed the pardon record of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, and in connection with such discussion I referred to Jim Ferguson in the following language: "All Texans are sorry for the woman that must bear his practice of using her as a rubber stamp that he may be rehabilitated through the criminal element of the state. Jim Ferguson knows that he can never be elected to office again and that two years will close the political career of Mrs. Ferguson, and he is doubtless 'making hay while the sun shines...
...baseball among friends. There were no professional coaches to curse into you the seriousness of your effort, nor vast galleries of rooting college mates and fair hero worshipers to wipe out your sense of values. Their absence was reflected in the names of the various nines--Dew Drops, Rubber Neeks, Jumbos, Lobsters, Boiler Makers, Minced Chickens, Fussers, Rounders, High Balls, Wash Bottles, Dropped Eggs, etc., etc. It is hard to be a hero with such a name across your chest...
Such at least was the announcement that Mr. Firestone made last week. The background for this story is that the British and Dutch control 97% of the world's rubber production. Britain has placed legal restrictions on rubber production which has boosted the price in a few months from about 25¢ or 30¢ a pound to more than...
Three years ago Mr. Firestone began to plan for getting a U. S. rubber supply. He sent investigators to the Philippines, but they reported adverse and unsettled political conditions. He sent them to Mexico and Central America and they reported the same. (He is nevertheless experimenting in Mexico.) He sent one to Liberia and he reported that he had never seen so perfect a place for rubber growing?good soil, good climate, comparative freedom from disease, undeveloped country, cheap land, abundant labor at rates even cheaper than in the Malay Peninsula. That is how the plan originated...