Word: rubbering
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...pointed out that the cost of producing raw rubber and cotton is about the same, but cotton sells at 22¢ and rubber at 90¢ a pound. On succeeding days rubber manufacturers told the committee the same story...
...Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices. They want an alibi to gouge the public, so they bark at the East India rubber planter, whose empire protects him better than the Napoleonic sphinx of the White House, who, campaigning on the back of a cow, protects our farmers. [Laughter and applause...
Several methods of avoiding high prices were suggested: 1) Planting rubber in the Philippines and elsewhere outside British control (this will not bring relief for several years, however?not until the rubber trees grow to bearing age.) 2) Co-operative buying, perhaps legally enforced, by all U. S. rubber manufacturers. 3) Using rubber as economically as possible, and carefully reclaiming all old rubber. 4) Tapping wild rubber trees still growing in many places...
...while ways and means of defeating rubber prices were discussed in the Committee, a Democrat, Loring M. Black of Brooklyn, presented on the floor of the House an entirely different attitude...
...British Government put on the Stevenson restriction plan to conserve the supply of rubber and to save their planters from bankruptcy. It was not done to gouge American manufacturers, for British manufacturers as well were affected...