Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needs a great deal of rubber-600,000 tons a year-for elastics, from fingerstalls to truck tires. Practically all (98%) of this rubber is lugged across 8,000 miles of Pacific Ocean from the Far East-British Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China. Japan, bent on wider control in East Asia, has long had its eye on these parts. And if the British fleet should be destroyed and the U. S. fleet sent into the Atlantic to guard against invasion from Europe, Japan might well be able to grab this Rubberland...
...from Argentina. It needs no corn or meat grown in the fat lands of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and eastern Bolivia. Of South American metals, only tin, manganese, bauxite, platinum and vanadium could be bought by the U. S. without competition with its own economy. The U. S. could use rubber from Brazil, but Brazil's present output of rubber is negligible and it takes at least seven years for a rubber plantation to become commercially workable. Thus, several years and many things must happen before South America can hope to find a sufficient market in the U. S. During...
...treatment had been used in 1,200 cases of infection, ranging from peritonitis to pyorrhea and the common cold. For lung and brain abscesses, abdominal infections like peritonitis, a solution of chlorophyll in salt water was applied directly to the infected surfaces, either in wet dressings or through soft rubber tubes. "Indolent" ulcers and "weeping" skin diseases were treated with a paste of chlorophyll and lanolin. Since chlorophyll is bland and soothing, said Dr. Gruskin, it has a great advantage over many standard antiseptics, which are harsh and irritating. Even "floods" of chlorophyll, he continued, do no harm to living...
Twenty-eight years ago, President Skinner hired a clumsy, bespectacled high-school lad named James T. Buckley to work in the chemistry lab. He broke so much glassware that he was transferred to engineering. There he broke so many hard-rubber jars (for storage batteries) that Skinner yanked him out again. Only other possible spot was the drafting room-and young Buckley was nearsighted. But Buckley got his chance, soon rose to head draftsman, to purchasing agent, to treasurer. Last year, when Skinner retired, he became Philco's president...
John Strachey (as he calls himself with Bolshevik brevity) is a big (6 ft.), rubber-jointed, rugby-shouldered Oxonian, with watchful, musing eyes, a somewhat rabbity mouth, puffy lips. In his youth he was a member of the British Labour Party. He and dark, lean, taut Sir Oswald Mosley (now imprisoned leader of British Fascism) stood for Parliament at the same time, quit the Labour Party at the same time. When Sir Oswald formed the National Party, young Strachey became his left-hand man. But by 1935 the young men were so far apart that Lady Mosley cried: "He claims...