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...half-dozen of the planes on the carriers are land planes. Each is equipped with a rubber bag and air pump to inflate it in case of forced landings at sea. Two destroyers escort each carrier as tenders for such mishaps...
...rubber growers of the Far East, May was to have been a pleasant month. After long negotiations, British and Dutch planters had agreed to tap no trees during the entire month (TIME, April 14). So well did they argue the thesis that this simple expedient would bolster the price of rubber throughout the world that native growers, notorious for their usual indifference to such schemes, joined in. But last week, in the middle of the tapping holiday, the planters received a shock. In London, rubber prices started a swift decline, broke their 1921 low, went on to establish...
...Although rubber's decline was only one of many in the sweeping readjustment of prices, it was especially discouraging since many plans have been tried and abandoned. But last week while rubber's deflation carried it to 14? a pound against $1.04 a few years ago, rumors were heard of a new aid to the industry, to be administered from the consumers' instead of producers' end. Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber, Firestone, said reports, would ally themselves as copper companies have done, would attempt to eliminate violent price fluctuations in both raw and finished rubber...
...Chicago, Joe Grein ("Mayor of Randolph Street"), oldtime saloon keeper, is president of the city's Malt Producers Association. From the $20,000 worth of bottles, barrels, hops, malt, caps, cappers, kegs, jugs, rubber hose, filtering paper and flavoring extracts on the shelves of the Grein shop a homebrewer could, until last week, buy everything he needed. Grein's shop, like thousands of others throughout the land, sold everything connected with liquor except the liquor itself...
...Ottawa last week Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning raised a terrific commotion in the Dominion Parliament by bringing in a budget the chief feature of which was 500 tariff changes, the whole so controversial that it seems likely to be much modified before being voted and submitted for the rubber stamp of Royalty. In a fiery speech against the bill Leader Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative opposition accused Mr. Dunning of attempting reprisals against the new U. S. tariff (TIME, March 31), and thereby endangering international friendly relations. After a brief, preliminary survey of the voluminous measure, experts guessed...