Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Submarines themselves are now equipped with heavier anti-aircraft guns to protect them from the patrol planes, which the men mortally hate & fear. They carry medical officers, have new-model rubber escape boats. Like U.S. subs, they stock the best food their country can provide- chicken, wine, oranges, real butter, good meat...
Valentim Boucas, amiable financial adviser to President Getulio Vargas, was in Washington last week. He concluded an agreement which raised the price of wild Amazon rubber and shifted to the Brazilians the responsibility for producing it (TIME, Feb. 28). Also on his mind was the dubious postwar future of Amazon rubber...
...present price of high-grade Brazilian rubber is 60? a lb., which is not far above the cost of gathering it from the scattered wild trees of the jungle. Far Eastern plantation rubber is much cheaper. Synthetic rubber may eventually prove cheaper still. Apparently the only hope for Brazil's war-built wild rubber industry is some sort of quota agreement with...
...Chase Me," with flashlights. One spectator will flash his light on the blank screen. Another spectator flashes another beam. Then the chase around the screen begins. This can be funny when played by two experts. Another game, invented by the marines in New Zealand, is played with white rubber balloons, which are inflated and batted through the air. The object is to hit the balloons with lighted cigarets. This game keeps every spectator alert, lest he find a glowing cigaret down his neck...
...Rubber. Profitwise, the No. 1 surprise was rubber. After booming 1941, tire makers were hard hit by the shortage in crude. Then followed the intricate, trouble-studded job of turning out a host of new products, with tricky synthetics. But Goodyear's Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield now revealed that volume had soared a resounding 68% during 1943. Profits had tagged along, ending up at $21,479,000 ($8.94 a share) v. 1942's $14,371,000. Percentagewise, U.S. Rubber did even better with...