Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese are Secretary of State Cordell Hull's warning to Japan to preserve the status quo in French Indo-China and the U. S. embargo on export of oil and scrap iron to Japan. Behind these moves is U. S. opposition to Japanese expansion southward, where lie vital rubber...
...cajole, amuse or flatter his huge lecture classes, and he never talked down to them. He used to come crashing into the lecture hall like a gladiator into an arena. On the day of the Great Blizzard of '88, he stamped in wearing leather boots. For him, rubber boots connoted pussyfooting. "Gentlemen," he said once, "if Communism ever gets control of this country, you be sure and get on the Committee...
...Britain, loading cargoes for export. With no passenger trade and with all Scandinavian and Continent traffic suspended, the port was far less bustling than normally, but workers employed (including crews) ran as high as 35,000 per day in August; warehouses were piled with grain, tobacco, flour, tea, rubber, sugar, meat, wool, timber, leather. At Tilbury Docks, which the Germans claimed to have destroyed Aug. 16, patches showed where bombs had struck but about 30 ships lay at berths handling cargo or making ready for sea. Officials admitted that as much traffic as possible had been diverted to safer ports...
...great gush of blood from the mouth." Waddie was sure the bullet had done the damage, but attorneys for the suspect in the case insisted that the victim must have been stabbed with a dagger by someone else. Waddie studied the scene, then rigged up a chain of rubber tubes of graduated widths, to simulate blood vessels. He dropped a bullet in the largest tube, attached the mouth of the tube to a spigot, turned on the water. The bullet pushed along through the smaller tubes; when the water was turned on full force, the bullet spurted out across...
...buying increases, R. R. C. can still protect itself. When the price stays above the legal 20? for a reasonable period (two or three weeks) R. R. C. may invoke its contract with the Dutch-British rubber cartel, International Rubber Regulations Committee, which controls 97% of the world supply. I. R. R. C. will then be obliged to boost its quotas to the U. S., send the price down to where R. R. C. can enter the market again. This week, unscared R. R. C. announced that it would buy another 180,000 tons of rubber next year...