Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precious. The Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia are the world's principal sources of cobalt, used in hard steel for toolmaking. Vanadium and manganese, also necessary for steel, come from the Gold Coast and South Africa. Tin comes from Nigeria, industrial diamonds from the fabulous Transvaal mines, rubber from Liberia, copper from the Congo...
...Progressive education ("a piece of rubber hose is at times worth ten years of the new psychology...
...smell of hot oil, hot rubber, leather and sweat pervades each steel machine. To this in action is added the bitter odor of powder smoke. And when a tank stops for a moment, fumes from the noisy, thrashing engine drift forward to add to the bouquet...
...never before in the history of the American Chemical Society, U.S. ears were cocked toward its semiannual meeting in Buffalo last week. But if Americans expected reassuring words on synthetic rubber and other acute wartime chemical problems, they heard little...
...news was under a bushel and was carefully kept there. The chemists talked learnedly, wordily, nebulously about synthetic rubber. Significantly, one scheduled paper on synthetic rubber was called off at the last moment. Nobody talked at all about such important new developments in gasoline as the chemicals which retard the deterioration of leaded aviation fuels in storage, or new ingredients in 100-octane gas. Many chemists were simply too busy to attend...