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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Also called hot flush. Dr. Lincoln notes that the best description of this symptom was given to her by an ex-logger, a 200-lb. man of 65: "Suddenly a wave of heat sweeps up from the soles of my feet to the crown of my head. I get kind of faint and I can't think straght. It only lasts a few seconds." Injections of male sex hormones, Author Lincoln reports, gave him "dramatic relief...
What did worry tiremakers was the possibility that Far East sources of natural rubber might again be overrun by enemy invaders. This fear last week drove the price of July rubber futures up to 35½ a lb., the highest in 22 years and more than double the price of six months ago. But the U.S. acted swiftly to guarantee adequate stockpiles of synthetic rubber. At the urging of rubber manufacturers, the White House ordered back into production three of the Government's twelve idle wartime synthetic-rubber plants: a butyl plant at Baton Rouge, La., a butadine plant...
...much unbooked time because station WOR-TV has been "dark" two nights a week. Pleased with the advertising impact to be expected from one sponsor taking over a station for a whole evening, Horgan further reported that the films, TV time, agency fees and services of 260-lb. M.C. "Happy" Felton fit into a modest weekly budget...
...Slack. Not so calm, however, were the traders in the nation's futures markets, who saw higher prices ahead. For two straight days on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange, the price of rubber soared the permissible daily limit of 2$ a lb. Though Washington officials denied any plans to speed up buying for the Government stockpile (now only about 40% complete), commodity men did not believe them: up also went the futures prices of grains, copper, lead, tin and zinc. In five days, the Dow-Jones index of all futures prices rose 3.95 points to 150.48, highest close since...
...rubber growers got the point. In two consecutive days last week, rubber futures dropped the full legal limit of 2? a Ib. on the New York Commodity Exchange. Indonesian growers scurried to unload, spurred on by the added news that their government plans to slap a stiff 5?-a-lb. tax on rubber exports after July i. At week's end, New York rubber futures had leveled off at 28.9?. With this year's natural rubber production now estimated at 140,000 tons in excess of world consumption, most traders thought that even lower prices were ahead...