Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thimann, who is one of the country's leading authorities on plant growth, is currently working with hybrid rubber trees in an effort to determine the best manner by which they can be propagated in sufficient numbers for commercial...
...successful this work--which is being financed through funds provided by the Cabot foundation--would produce rubber-bearing plants with an output greatly exceeding that of the trees over in existence...
Beer & Free Lunch. Hinky Dink and his lifelong partner, Bathhouse John Coughlin, had set out to rule these rich and raffish stews of the new metropolis. Bathhouse John, once a rubber in a Turkish oath, was the front man. He was a huge, bumbiing. handsome ruffian, full of pomp, speech and warm red blood. Tight-lipped Hinky Dink was the boss. They were elected aldermen; together they controlled the vote, became loved, feared, respected...
...Canadian rubber tires, supposed to enter the U.S. under a 10% tariff, are often classified by customs inspectors as "articles made wholly or in part of graphite." Result: a 30% duty...
...same; wool producers (to whom soap is a major necessity) lamented: "No woolens." For want of glycerine, a by-product of animal fats, General Electric could not get the lacquer it needed to finish thousands of refrigerators. For want of industrial soap and stearic acid, all synthetic rubber production in Akron was expected to drop sharply in November, stop completely in December...