Word: rubbering
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...second in size only to the Los Angeles.? She is 282 ft. long with capacity for 719,000 cu. ft. of gas. Four 300-h. p. Liberty motors propel her. She belongs to the U. S. Army; was built in Akron, Ohio, by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...There are at present governmentally controlled combinations in nine raw materials?Egyptian long staple cotton, camphor, coffee, iodine, nitrates, potash, mercury, rubber and sisal. At present prices, if we maintain our present rate of consumption, these commodities will cost us about...
...surplus by getting rid of the surplus. There are practical difficulties in the way of such procedure, although they might perhaps be overcome. It might lead to foreign ill-will and would look a bit inconsistent in the face of U. S. protest against British restriction on rubber production (TIME, Jan. 4). This third avenue is apparently not being forcibly suggested by any group, although the Department of Agriculture hinted at it in a report on 1924 crops last week...
None the less it goes ill with rubber manufacturers to be compelled to pay extreme prices, and it goes down ill in Congress that the British are taking $700,000,000 a year out of the U. S. in rubber?an amount which more than pays the British debt annuities...
...happens that the British rubber scheme involves an export tax. Imposition of export taxes is forbidden by the U. S. constitution...