Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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East from the jagged wall of the Andes stretches the green, sealike wilderness of Bolivia's Oriente. In its lonely towns, descendants of Spanish aristocrats gravely toast the kings of Spain by candlelight; its brown-skinned, barefoot rubber gath, erers get their only view of the outside world from old film plays. In jungle-hemmed clearings jaguars and blood-sucking bats prey on the settlers' cattle. Along the region's sluggish, yellow rivers, savage bush Indians hunt heads and shoot arrows at low-flying airplanes. Occasionally, from the principal cities of Santa Cruz...
...showdown will come when both Brazil's and Argentina's railways are finished, and the two countries bid openly for Bolivia's oil. Whatever the outcome, the blessings and drawbacks of modern life will soon come to the Oriente's cattle herders and rubber collectors...
...Cold rubber (so called because it is cooked at 41° Fahrenheit, compared to 122° for regular synthetic) has been the sensation of the U.S. synthetic industry. Researchers first produced it during World War II. Because cold rubber is made at a lower temperature, it has a longer molecule which fits it to outwear natural rubber by as much...
Outside the Government's huge $7,500,000 synthetic rubber plant at Baton Rouge one day last week, a crowd of bigwigs gathered. They had come to watch while the Copolymer Corp.,† which operates the plant, switched to 100% production of "cold rubber." It was the first U.S. synthetic plant to make the changeover. Copolymer's President A. L. Freedlander thought his guests were witnessing a revolution...
...testing grounds at San Antonio. Copolymer has driven one of the world's largest fleets of trucks and autos a total of 26 million miles on cold rubber tires, reported "phenomenal" increases in wear (sample claim: 40.000 miles for an auto tire). Said Copolymer's Freedlander: "If all U.S. replacement tires had been made of cold rubber last year, U.S. motorists would have saved $200 million...