Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Chief of Staff General Antenor Ichazo: "The decree, in my opinion, will serve to revolutionize our economy." What this probably meant was that troops or mobilized civilians can be set to mining tin, tungsten, lead, copper, antimony, harvesting rubber, producing quinine, building roads. Labor for these enterprises has been scarce, and it has sometimes been both obstreperous and ill-treated. Mobilization presumably will not be a boon to Bolivian labor, but it may well increase production of Bolivian war material...
...synthetic program was going so well that many substitute plans had been ash-canned, and he himself hoped to go back to his railroad by summertime. The once-ballyhooed guayule plan has been slashed from 200,000 acres to a paltry 15,000; schemes like cryptostegia vines, home-grown rubber trees and dandelions are headed the same way (see p, 54). Then he sent the hopes of U.S. motorists up: "By April 1944 . . . civilians will begin to get a little synthetic rubber...
...Scotsman. Born near Edinburgh in 1904, son of an engineer, David MacDonald started out in rubber planting in Malay. In 1929, when depression wrung that business dry, an earlier interest in stage and films took him to Hollywood. There a break plus his abilities got him jobs under Directors Cecil De Mille, King Vidor, Henry Hathaway and Raoul Walsh, with whom he went to London...
...President Roosevelt, despite his supposed rubber-stamp Congresses, has, in ten years, vetoed more bills than any other U.S. President. Second: Grover Cleveland, with...
Tactics with Firecrackers. The rubber planters, civil servants and clerks of Malaya formed a sort of Home Guard and went out into the jungle, where few escaped death or capture. They flew ancient pleasure and training planes against Japanese Zeros. The regular battalions of British, Indian, Gurkha and Australian troops fought with tragic bravery. Weller's account of these men in action is also a brilliant story of Japanese fighting methods...