Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even where the soil is fertile, the only wealth yet tapped is rubber. For a few brief years at the turn of the century, when rubber sold for $1 a pound, prodigious fortunes were made by rubber barons who hired natives to slip through the jungles and tap wild trees (which the Indians had known as "weeping wood"). But first, plantation rubber from the Indies and then synthetic rubber from the U.S. cut the price. Today the Amazon valley is barely struggling along with a temporary subsidy guaranteeing 50? a pound-more than twice the world price...
...streets and bourbon on the table. Democratic headquarters passed out Victory Kits containing whistles, Truman buttons, cigarette lighters. A papier mache donkey-which shook its head and flashed its eyes-was set up on the marquee of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel to replace the Republican's sausagey balloon-rubber elephant...
Following' the lead of U.S. Rubber, eight other tire producers upped prices 4½% to 7½%. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. became the seventh automaker in six weeks to announce new price increases, ranging from...
Matty likes the prospects. His company will take a 5% cut on every ton of goods that it moves. First haul in sight: $170 million worth of rubber, tin, pepper, tapioca, etc., already stockpiled and ready for shipment as soon as the Dutch lift their economic blockade against the islands...
There is method in Matty's seeming madness about U.S. competitors. Before the war, Indonesia was the hallowed preserve of Dutch and British traders and cartels (notably tin and rubber), which all but shut U.S. business out of the islands' billion-dollar-a-year (at '48 prices) trade. Matty Fox is determined to keep them from regaining their hold. Last week he was making the rounds of U.S. companies, inviting them to step right through the archipelago's open door-when it opens...