Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Phineas T. Barnum observed that "a sucker is born every minute" and proceeded to prove it with a fabulous assortment of hokum, men have tried to describe the mystery and glamour surrounding circus life. But most attempts at painting the lives and loves of an India Rubber Man or drawing the character behind a barker's chant have failed miserably. Circus people became either ridiculous or dull under the pens of fascinated, but insensitive authors. "Gus the Great" is no unhappy commentary by someone outside the realm. Mr. Duncan treats his subject with great dignity and honest realism...
Cried the New York Daily News: "It is comparable to the piratical prices the British-Dutch rubber cartels used to charge for their products. This stickup game is going on . . . at a time when we are . . . straining plenty of nerves, including financial ones, to keep Great Britain from going bankrupt." What had caused the News to sound its A was the price of cocoa. Some U.S. chocolate manufacturers and traders on New York's cocoa exchanges were just...
...average cost: about $10,000), paid himself $41,000 last year in salary and bonuses. The company netted $59,730. With the People's Pool, he expects to gross well over $3,000,000. Of this, $500,000 will be grossed on sales of pool accessories (diving boards, rubber mattresses...
...raised a few hackles here & there. Said he in a tone that would scarcely have been used by Britons at their hoitiest and toitiest in dealing with "natives": "Perhaps the Chinese have been a shade more independent recently, as if they wanted to show that China was not a rubber stamp...
...producers, Germany (1939 production: 601 million Ibs.) and Japan (540 million). The total world rayon production in 1946 was only 1.7 billion Ibs., compared to 1939's 2.3 billion. Moreover, important new customers had arisen to compete with dress manufacturers for the supply; this year the U.S. rubber industry, which decided to continue its wartime substitution of rayon tire cord for cotton, will probably take about 26% of the total U.S. production, v. 2% in 1940. Although U.S. productive capacity had more than doubled since the war began, the 900 million Ibs. being spun this year was still...