Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament into a gigantic sausage machine. ... It made nonsense of the vital and historic functions of the House of Commons. . . . One can see that it has given the Tories a stronger argument for their case that Labor means to reduce the status of the House to that of a rubber-stamp assembly...
Most damning charge was that Farben experimented on slave labor and concentration camp inmates with "deadly gases, vaccines and related products." To supply slave labor for its synthetic rubber plant at Oswiecim, Farben allegedly constructed a concentration camp and worked the men, women & children so hard that an estimated 100 a day died from exhaustion...
Most important, to U.S. companies was the old charge that Farben had weakened the U.S. by cartel agreements with Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey to restrict synthetic rubber development, with Aluminum Co. of America and Dow Chemical to restrict magnesium production, with a Du Pont subsidiary to prevent export of tetrazene (an explosive) to Britain...
...this week. He said that Standard had had "an agreement to purchase a large number of Farben's American patents for $35,000,000, plus turning over to them some of our patents. Those patents we purchased gave the U.S. synthetic toluol for TNT . . . 100 octane gasoline . . . buna rubber." The Dow Chemical Co.'s Willard H. Dow denied the cartel charge saying: "Those things have been very much distorted...
...daily and one bold baggage was caught with a monk who had rented a hotel room for an unmonkish purpose. On West Lake, that lovely shallow blue pool, girt by green hills, watched by graceful pagodas and crossed by willow-draped causeways and moon-bridges, sampans drift full of rubber-necking tourists, earnest young intellectuals, tired officials and fat merchants on holiday. Lolling in one, with the tolling bells of distant temples in your ears and a book of verse before your eyes, you come a bit closer to understanding Hangchow's appeal-and maybe to understanding China...