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...Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Manhattan Republican, financier (New York Transportation Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.), and Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware Republican, industrialist (chairman of General Motors Co.). Reason: Prohibition...
...Congo; of how he was feted as an explorer but had his practical suggestions ignored, and finally joined reluctant forces with Belgium's Leopold. Belated exposures of "Belgian Atrocities" in the Congo-true tales of Blackamoors whose hands were hacked off when they failed to bring in sufficient rubber or ivory-were utilized by the Powers to compel Uncle Leopold to grant them more favorable trading privileges in his Congo. Thereafter, as before, the fabulous wealth wrung from strumpeteered Mother Congo was lavished by Wicked Uncle Leopold chiefly upon public works* in Belgium ; secondarily upon his many and riotously...
...acres, exploited its mine of raw materials, its cheap labor. Last week, black labor in the Congo demanded and got 19? a day. Like the soap works at Port Sunlight, the tire factories at Akron, Ohio, must be served. From one source or another, an unending supply of rubber must pour into the plant of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Angry at the cost of obtaining it from one source (British), Harvey Samuel Firestone determined to get it from another. Said he: "Americans Should Produce Their Own Rubber." Thus U. S. industrialism went to Africa, in the person of white...
From Detroit, last week, sailed the motorship Lake Ormoc, carrying hospital equipment, an experimental laboratory, machine shop, refrigerating plant, provisions for two years. Its destination: Santarem, Brazil, a river port 100 miles north of Henry Ford's new 5,000,000 acre rubber plantation. In ten years, Mr. Ford's experts hope the plantation will yield 6,000,000,000 pounds of rubber annually, enough to make 1,000,000,000 Ford tires...
Thomas A. Edison-,-returning to his West Orange (N. J.) laboratory from rubber-hunting experiments in the South last week, found his workers smoking cigarets; promptly posted this notice. Pipes, cigars, chewing tobacco are not banned...