Word: rubbering
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...main purpose of these concessions was to prevent the possibility of a large American owned and controlled rubber development in Panama, sufficient in scope to make America independent of the present British monopoly of the world's crude rubber...
...question yet to be definitely answered is whether the concession was a British move to prevent U. S. rubber-planting in Panama. Until that question is settled, the dastardliness of the project cannot be estimated...
...surgeon will let his scalpel pierce the meninges and brain, but the parents of the 16-month-old child that lay on the operating table of the Brownsville and East New York Hospital one night last week had the fullest confidence in the operator, Dr. Raphael Schillinger. Rubber-gloved and white-suited, he bent tensely over the tiny head. High-powered lamps poured their white fire down. Two assistants working beside him, watched him make a deep incision in the porcelain curve of tissue and bone behind the baby ear, held their breath as he worked his bright instrument deeper...
Rainclouds swaddled the low countries along the North Sea, whipped and harried by a southwest wind, as 14 monstrous rubber bubbles sailed aloft from an aviation field near Antwerp and drifted off toward the Dutch frontier. Night fell before all the bubbles had come again to earth. Dawn found one of them still coasting northeast over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then...
...running of that race. How many others no one knew. Probably every fifth person in the British Empire had money up, or said he had. All day, in costers' wagons and lorries and trains they had poured into Epsom Downs; they stood in the rain, an immense rubber-coated army, silently disliking each other. "All umbrellas down," said a voice. Up and down the ranked lines, a mile and a half long, of that steaming host, black bubbles of silk obediently collapsed; bookmakers put away their last tickets; touts and tipsters, who had offered the winner...