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With such portents as these in evidence, it is significant to note that while the British Empire produced 67% of the world's rubber in 1922, the percentage fell to 57 last year. This was due, of course, in part, to the curtailment of British rubber production by Parliament under the Stevenson Act. Theoretically this measure was expected to intensify the demand for rubber and consequently raise its price by curtailing the supply. The actual results have been so unsatisfactory that last week a leading British newspaper in Malaya, The Malay Mail, declared: "In many quarters restriction is regarded...
That this view is coming to be adopted even in London was shown when Prime Minister Baldwin recently appointed a commission to report upon the advisability of repealing or modifying the Stevenson Act (TIME, March 5). Already the price of rubber has fallen in anticipation that the Commission will report against further curtailment; and it seemed last week that the British Empire has been definitely forced out of its monopolistic position in the world rubber market...
Details were meagre and the murderous heathen were soon labeled by lazy correspondents with the rubber stamp "COMMUNISTS...
...most stimulating to further research." Accordingly, he received last week the Nichols Medal, coveted by all chemists. Industrial problems had suggested to Dr. Taylor the study of catalytic agents-those substances which accelerate, retard, or even cause chemical change, while remaining themselves unchanged. Catalytic agents are used to vulcanize rubber. Chemist Taylor's experiments have been with substances which prevent rubber from rotting, dyed materials from fading, oil from becoming rancid...
...There is no one I'd rather see licked than that lummox," said the holder of a ringside seat ($22.50) as Jack Sharkey climbed through the ropes last week in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, to fight "Honest John" Risko, Cleveland "rubber man." Experts had picked Sharkey. So had gamblers. Risko was tough, they said, but Sharkey was tough and fancy. When the bell rang, Risko made Sharkey miss a left, landed a left to the jaw. All through the fight he hooked to the chin and made Sharkey jerk his legs up when he hit him" in the stomach...