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Similar operations have been done on about 600 U. S. people now living. They respire through their throat opening. To prevent inhaling of dust and dirt, the hole is screened with gauze which a soft rubber ring holds in place...
...Manhattan, early in 1925 displayed a device made for him by Dr. Harvey Fletcher and Clarence E. Lane of the Western Electric-American Telephone & Telegraph laboratories. The apparatus consists of a small cylinder about the size of a man's pipe bowl. From the bottom reaches a flexible rubber tube which at will is attached to the opening in the cripple's throat. From the top extends a pipe stem, intended to bs held deep in the mouth. The cylinder contains a vibrating diaphram of rubber. As air is breathed over this diaphragm a sound results; moving tongue...
...Rubber, like other commodities, enjoys an elastic market. But potent manufacturers who buy raw rubber (like Harvey Samuel Firestone and Henry Ford) would rather raise it than stretch for it. In 1926, Mr. Firestone bought 1,000,000 acres in Liberian jungleland from which, in nine years, he will get his own rubber for his own tires. Now Mr. Firestone's close friend, Henry Ford, has adopted a similar policy...
...heavy blades will slash down their one-time haunts to make way for future windshield wipers, floor mats, balloon tires. If Mr. Ford's plantation progresses in Brazil as Mr. Firestone's is progressing in Liberia, it should in ten years become a factor in the international rubber market...
Capitalized at $1,000,000 by Henry Ford, Edsel Ford and a few others of their organization, the Companhia Ford Expansao Industriale de Brazil agrees to plant a portion of the entire acreage in rubber every year until the whole jungle is industrialized. A fleet of steamships will make regular trips from the U. S. to Brazil. In time, a fleet of airplanes will do likewise...