Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Landing Craft, Rubber), in 12-and 16-ft. sizes, to land patrols of seven...
Whether the field turns out to be oil or nothing, 69-year-old Farmer Cottingham is sitting pretty. With his own 390 acres, plus his two daughters' 320, he has royalty rights to a rich chunk of the Carter leasehold. Last week, in overalls and rubber boots, Farmer Cottingham phlegmatically cleared ground for more corn and cotton. But the gossips in Oklahoma City whispered that he had already been offered $10,000 for the royalty rights to a mere ten of his 710 acres...
Hope Dashed. There was only one flaw: war industry (synthetic rubber, explosives, etc.) is the big consumer of alcohol today, not hair tonic. And there is not enough alcohol. Smart sugarmen in Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean have converted all sugar possible into liquor instead of into the good alcohol base, blackstrap molasses. Reason: they get about $1 (800%) more a gal. Last month Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley tried to force Cuban producers back into the molasses and industrial-alcohol business by limiting the amount of potable alcohol the U.S. would import...
...Brazilians called them "paraquedistas" (paratroopers). Not all were well chosen. At first they were new to the country, poorly coordinated, confused by Washington rivalries. But they gradually got together under the leadership of Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, did their big job fairly well. The only bad mess was the wild rubber program in the Amazon Valley, where Americans did not take proper advantage of native experience...
...maturity.* The platyfish, not an egg-layer, bears live young. To make sure that their baby platyfish got a germ-free start, the researchers bathed the mother fish in alcohol, ether and iodine, made a Caesarean incision and gently sucked the young out of the germless oviduct with a rubber bulb, taking care not to rupture the germ-packed intestines. Then they popped the baby fishes into warm, sterile water, later transferred them to sterile, stoppered milk bottles...