Word: rubbering
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Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (son of the tire-potentate), who called on President Coolidge at White Pine Camp, told him what ought to be done for the rubber industry in the Philippines...
...Bearing in mind the 25,000,000 acres of fertile land on Mindanao, "In 15 years the United States could become independent of the British rubber monopoly, provided the land laws of the Philippine Islands are revised to encourage American investments in an extensive...
...invitation. He presented his card: Harvey S. Firestone Jr. If such things were done, there might have been in one corner of the card: Son of famed tire-magnate; in another corner Princeton University, 1920; and finally, below his name in bold type: Extremely well-informed on rubber...
...Although, the U. S. consumes 70% of the world's rubber supply, it produces only a little over...
...Firestone knows whereof he speaks, for his company has experimented on rubber-growing in many a strange hot clime, particularly down in Liberia where the Firestones have a 1,000,000-acre rubber concession, 10,000 acres of which have already been cleared and planted...