Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the rear of the building to supervise these operations. A stray bullet broke his leg. As his colleagues carried him to safety, he ordered them to take his two remaining grenades and blow up the power plant. Then the captain ordered the sergeant to prop him against a tree and leave because the Commandos had a rendezvous with the evacuating forces. The sergeant gave the captain a shot of morphine, then with the others started for the sea, leaving Keyes's body and the wounded captain behind...
Churchill the Speaker. On Christmas Eve Winston Churchill stood bareheaded while Franklin Roosevelt, on the south portico of the White House, went through the annual ceremony of turning on the outdoor Christmas tree's lights before, some 2,000 spectators inside the grounds, more thousands outside. Then he joined the President in broadcasting Christmas greetings to the nation...
...backs of plodding burros, send them off to one of Intercontinental's three Mexican factories. There the rubber is extracted by running the plants through grinding and pebble mills. The final product (which is shipped to the U.S. in 100-lb. boxes) looks, feels and smells like tree rubber, but is softer, less wear-resistant...
Simple to produce, guayule rubber has never before got out of the pin-money class, mainly because it costs 12-15? a Ib. v. 5-10? for plantation rubber. It is too soft to replace tree rubber completely in the vast tire and inner-tube market, is chiefly used (especially by Goodrich) for impregnating the cotton strands in belting, shoes, raincoats, etc. Hence Intercontinental has never produced more than 5,000 tons a year (less than 1% of U.S. consumption); it has lost money in eight of the last twelve years; its 1940 profits were only $324,000, about...
...Intercontinental's first big customer around 1910 (when tree rubber was $2.07 a lb.) was Diamond Rubber Co., later bought by Goodrich...