Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hard rubber...
...went to China. He established a 300-bed base hospital in Wutai, which is the surgical centre serving 12,000,000 people. A 150-bed hospital in North Shensi, named after him, winds through 30 caves. In the fall of 1939, while operating with bare hands (rubber gloves are scarce in China) Dr. Bethune infected his finger, died of blood poisoning...
...extracting magnesium from Gulf water. Manufacture of toluol (for TNT) from petroleum was begun by Shell Oil Co. at its Houston refinery; a new $10,760,000 toluol plant was also under construction at Baytown, Tex. by Humble Oil. Another defense-born baby of the oil industry was synthetic rubber: Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana had a $1,000,000 buna plant under construction at Baton Rouge, and Hydrocarbon Chemical & Rubber Co. will complete a butadiene plant at Borger, Tex. next month...
...lackadaisical Gold Coast sextet just barely eked out a tie in the next game when Anderson sneaked the rubber past goalie Ullman while the last whistle was blowing. Ashwell (2), Rottschafer, and Burton scored for Lowell while McNichol (2), and Forte scored for Adams before Anderson's clincher...
...barber who as a child had accidentally swallowed strong caustic soda solution. The soda burned his esophagus, and the scar tissue which formed there permanently closed it, so that no food could pass to his stomach. Surgeons had made a neat little hole in his stomach wall, inserted a rubber tube. Mr. V.'s method of eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit it into a syringe, insert the syringe into his tube, and thus fill his stomach. Through the tube Dr. Carlson could observe, to his heart...