Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, a manufacturer proudly advertised the ultimate in labor-saving devices for U.S. women: "Flexible rubber separators to keep your toes apart so polish dries thoroughly without smearing...
Prominently displayed in the gallery window were three rubber female breasts, mounted on velvet. Any knowledgeable Parisian recognized the signs immediately: the Surrealists were back. Up the 21 steps-which 1,500 curious Parisians climbed on the opening day-was Surrealism's first international show since...
...safely emerge to do their courting and prowling. Living such a life, the earthworm is intensely nervous and sensitive to the slightest vibration of danger. Though blind, it has learned to pick up the tremors of an approaching sparrow and to snap back into its hole like a rubber band...
There is trouble in other areas of the rubber business, too. In Malaya, there is so much natural rubber in storage that prices have fallen from around 21? a lb. to as low as 15?. Some planters fear that they may fall to 10?. The reasons are 1) the club held over crude prices by U.S. synthetic-rubber production and 2) estimated world production of 1.2 to 1.5 million tons of natural rubber in 1947, equal to 1941's alltime record...
...which now allows only 23% of natural rubber to be used in tires, is relaxing its wartime restrictions far too slowly for Malaya. In the next 60 days they will be eased again. But the U.S. intends to keep enough controls so that at least 250,000 tons of synthetic rubber will be used annually, the minimum to keep the synthetic industry going. All this is a far cry from 1925, when Britain's "Stevenson plan" to restrict rubber production ran up prices to more than $1 a lb. Recalling those days, a Malayan planter last week wrote...