Word: rubbering
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...across the River Elbe toward Wilhelmsburg. Adults and children dropped without knowing why. Cattle fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however survivors were rushing frantically about screaming "War Gas!" fleeing perhaps away from and perhaps toward...
What Brigadier General Lincoln Clark Andrews said three years ago when he became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement would have been pat for his new job of last week. Twelve U. S. rubber companies had formed a Rubber Institute and made General Andrews, 60, Director General...
Fortifying General Andrews' Rubber Institute is the core of U. S. rubber industry...
...Ford, last week, and landed with them from the Majestic (see above). They were met on the dock in Manhattan by famed Akron (Ohio) Tire Man Harvey Firestone Sr., who told interviewers that Harvey Jr. has just returned from the Afric Republic of Liberia where the Firestones have established rubber plantations which have been partially instrumental in breaking down the British rubber monopoly (TIME...
...Brazil last week newspapers, politicians, and businessmen quarreled bitterly over the 50-year concession recently granted Henry Ford to cultivate rubber trees in the Amazon basin. By his contract he is permitted to engage in domestic and foreign trade without duty...