Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world rubber market, there had not been such a chance in years to make a fast buck-nor so many speculators trying to make it. Natural rubber began getting scarce last winter just as booming auto production stepped up the demand for tires. Synthetic rubber production slumped as the coal strike cut the supply of styrene, a vital coal-tar derivative...
...natural rubber prices rose, Indonesian growers hoarded their rubber; they not only distrusted their drastically devalued native currency (TIME, March 27), but they thought the price of rubber might go even higher. It did. Natural rubber bounced from 15¼? a lb. on the New York futures market last October to 34½? this month, a 22-year record, and forced tiremakers to boost prices...
That moved the State Department into action. Last week the department told Indonesia and other rubber producers that the U.S. is increasing its production of 18½?-a-lb. synthetic rubber by 85%, expects to be turning out 420,000 tons a year by July...
...both the Chaplain Corps (Four Chaplains) and WACs on overseas duty (Force of Her Arms). M-G-M is planning to shoot a story about Japanese-American G.I.s in Italy (Go For Broke), and 20th Century-Fox is about to begin filming the exploits of the Navy's rubber-suited demolition swimmers (The Frog...
...report to party bosses had recently given the following partial breakdown of unemployment: construction workers, 31,000 (95%); cigarette factory workers, 30,000 (75%); wharf coolies, 10,000 (32%); merchant seamen, 20,000; shop & sales clerks, 20,000. He admitted widespread unemployment in the papermaking, matchmaking, silk-weaving, rubber and cotton textile industries. On the basis of these figures, Hong Kong observers reckoned that 600,000 people were close to starvation in Shanghai...