Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Industrial-minded Henry Ford keeps his 20,200 acres near Savannah hard at work growing cotton, rice and experimental rubber plants for his friend Thomas Edison. The U. S. Department of Agriculture is cooperating to try and develop the sappy seedlings of a U. S. raw rubber industry...
Mechanically, rubber for engine mountings is the widest innovation. The rubber insulates the engine from the rest of the chassis and reduces vibration and noise...
...slender, dexterous, rubber gloved hands of Sir Hugh Rigby applied the knife. Swiftly he pierced between two ribs, pierced further, and introduced a drainage tube into a festering pus pocket, in the lower section of the right lung, which had been exuding poison into the blood royal...
...Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom was raging up and down the Amazon (circa 1900) the rubber taxes collected by the states of Para and Amazonas (see Map) made their capitals, Belem, and Manaos, two of the richest cities of their size in the world...
Plantation rubber from the British and Dutch possessions in the Far East broke Brazil's virtual rubber monopoly and burst her rubber boom in 1910. Only recently has Henry Ford stirred Brazilian hopes of reviving the good old rubber days, by leasing over 3,000,000 Amazonian acres on which Fordized rubber plantations are being started. Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. Notably a ferocious and somewhat mysterious Italian who calls himself "The King of the Xingu" has terrorized and virtually enslaved several tribes on the Xingu River who now meekly gather...