Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allanbrook rode to the rescue, decided to picket the prison. But in Belgium picketing is illegal in certain out-of-bounds areas, and the Little Castle was out of bounds, all right. The rescuers, however, found that the law said nothing against demonstrations on canals. Next day, in a rubber dinghy, Ewan set out on the Canal de Charleroi, right next to the prison. Through a megaphone of rolled newspapers, he shouted that Clarin should be freed...
There was not yet enough for that. Last year, the nine Government-owned, industry-run synthetic plants turned out only enough cold rubber for U.S. tiremakers to make three cold-rubber tires out of every 100 they sold (customers who got them did not know it). RFC, which has charge of the plants, expects to spend $5,000,000 a year to convert the entire capacity of synthetic plants to cold rubber...
Before the year is out. conversions at Government plants operated by Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber & General 200,000 tons, one-seventh of the nation's total consumption of rubber of all kinds. At last week's dedication of the Copolymer plant, rubber experts privately predicted that, within ten years, the U.S. would be using cold rubber almost entirely...
...true, that spelled a revolution of another kind for the British-French-Dutch rubber plantations in the Far East. It was significant last week,' that, as Copolymer began full production, the price of natural rubber, which was 25? a Ib. in New York last August, broke ¹¼ to 16¼? a Ib., the lowest in two years...
...joint synthetic company owned by eight small rubber and tire makers...