Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...improved) silk and spice trail which, in the authors' opinion, has been even more important to China than the Burma Road. Kazakhstan is first in the Soviet Union in copper mining, second in tin and gold, third in coal and petroleum. In the south, kok-sagyz, a rubber-yielding dandelion, is Russia's No. 2 source for rubber...
...Government agencies were strong for increased home canning, for each jar of fruit put up at home leaves a commercial-pack can for the armed forces, and more freight space for shipping other foods. WPB had provided enough glass jars, paraffin, rubber rings, OPA chipped in the sugar, and, with the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, passed out hints for spreading it thin: can fruits in their own juices without adding water; put up without any sugar and sweeten later out of current sugar allowances; use honey to replace half the sugar called for, corn syrup...
London Asiatic Rubber & Produce Co. Ltd., with properties in Malaya, issued a report to comfort its stockholders...
...been very satisfactory. . . . At the time of the enemy occupation the estates were in good condition and were among the cheapest producers. . . . If the estates, etc., are recovered without having sustained very serious damage, the prospects of this company should again compare very favorably with those of any other rubber producer in the East...
Radiomen stretched their imaginations to the snapping point in the rubber-salvage campaign. Two types of result...