Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tumor. For his subject he chose a 76-year-old man with a large funguslike growth on his cheek, just in front of his ear. Working with Dr. Allen, Surgeon Robert Emery Brennan gave the patient a local anesthetic, punctured the skin around the margin of the tumor, passed rubber ligatures through these openings and tied off the arteries that supplied the tumor with blood. After an hour and a half, when the tumor had darkened slightly, the ligatures were untied...
...Rubber Reserve Co., created last month by RFC, has the job of buying a 100,000-to-150,000-ton defense stockpile of rubber before Christmas at 18? to 20? a lb. Last week Rubber Reserve Co. made its maiden venture into the tough and jumpy spot-rubber market. The price moved forward to 20? and R. R. C., squealing, withdrew...
...bounce in the rubber market came from the Japanese. In the smelly raw-rubber markets of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya, whence comes 87% of U. S. rubber, Japs have overbid U. S. importers for weeks. Dutch rubber exports to Japan for the first half of 1940 (12,278 tons) were around the largest in history, nearly double those of the first half...
Japan's own rubber needs (42,000 tons last year) are minuscule alongside the U. S.'s (575,000 tons). But U. S. rubber importers, irked by weeks of being over bid, do not think Japan is buying for Japanese consumption. They guess that Japan, shipping the rubber across Manchukuo and Russia, has become Germany's purchasing agent. Germany, with all her substitutes, still needs 100,000 tons or more of natural rubber a year under war conditions...
...France was growing defense-conscious. To French Indo-China was allotted 440,000,000 francs for anti-aircraft guns, coastal batteries, improved harbors, other defenses. In order to make the colony self-sufficient in wartime. Minister Mandel pushed public works, expanded light industries, built up production of coal, tin, rubber, iron, rice...