Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Select special areas for standard rubber seedling plantations...
Those who expect synthetics some day to push rubber off the market entirely, those who think the Mexican guayule bush a better bet, looked dubious; but Vargas was confident. That he had rubber-worried Uncle Sam behind him to some extent was indicated by the fact that at Manaus he received exhaustive reports from experts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture working in conjunction with private experts from Goodyear. In Belem, Vargas lunched with John Ingle, head of Goodyear's Crude Rubber Division, who flew there from Akron as guest of Vargas' golf partner, Brazil...
...with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...
Edward G. Robinson, whose portrait of German Scientist Ehrlich entrenched him in the field of cinema biography, growls pleasantly through Reuter's tribulations. He has to buck the artistic irresponsibility of his poet-partner Max (Eddie Albert) and the indifference of rubber-skinned bankers before he proves that pigeons can pack the news from Brussels to Aachen quicker than the fleetest stagecoach...
...FACE OF THE VERDICT-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley, scientist, again works with Supt.Hanslet and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. Major Bedworthy is drowned near Blacksand. Accident, says the jury. Maybe, says his friend and neighbor. Priestley plows around in rubber boots among motives of sex and money...