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Captain Christopher Columbus peered through the South American underbrush and was astonished to see a pair of natives bouncing a rubber ball. Three centuries later Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley could make his erasures with a new-fangled device called a rubber. Two generations after that a Mr. Farris was collecting rubber seeds from Brazil to plant in Ceylon, East India and Polynesia, and Chemist Greville Williams had just discovered that rubber and isoprene were polymers. Then a Frenchman and an American made the plant almost indispensable and the War set half a dozen, nations to work trying to find...
Three enthusiastic young chemists of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. arose and addressed the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society at Akron to describe the following experiment: By catalytic polymerization of acetylene they had produced mono-vinylacetylene. This they had treated with hydrogen chloride to obtain chloroprene. Polymerization of the chloroprene had resulted in a sub stance similar to the product obtained by vulcanizing rubber with sulphur. Stopping the polymerization at an intermediate point gave them ? Rubber. In short, they had produced synthetic rubber from acet ylene (product of coal and limestone), salt and water. While...
...liked its great rambling quadrangles. We liked its utter lack of echoing, brick-bare dormitory halls. We liked the white colonial apartment doors, unpierced by mail slots for ad minions to thumb with circulars and manifestes. We liked the huge, gentlemanly apartments, with floors of oak and gleaming waxed rubber, with showers in every bathroom and two washbowls...
...more than 20 industries. Of 800 replies received, 58% pointed to busy winter prospects; 54%, of the responding concerns had either maintained or raised the wage scale. Eight industries actually showed gains over 1930. These were automobile accessories 14%, chemicals 11%, electrical 18%,, leather 27%, paper & pulp 14%, rubber 25%, stationery & printing 9%,, textiles 17%, miscellaneous...
Mobsmen drove the police first from Sir Ronald's garage, poured gasoline on the six Government cars, burnt them with yells of triumph and great stench of rubber & paint. Next they stove in the locked door of Government house, smashed Sir Ronald's choice parlor ornaments, knifed his oil paintings, fouled his bedroom. Setting fire at last to Government House in five places, Cyprus' Greeks burnt it utterly to the ground, sang as it burned the National Anthem of the Greek Republic...