Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Rubber. In 1922 the British Empire passed the famed Stevenson Act which restricted the export of rubber from British colonies. Although British exports were checked, Dutch competition grew more intense, more rubber trees matured in British territory. In 1928 the restriction was removed. Since then, "tapping holidays" have failed because of the lack of cooperation from native growers...
...With a rubber bandage around one knee, flat-nosed, beetle-browed Battling Battalino of Hartford, Conn., featherweight champion of the world, advanced crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe...
...Henry Ford undertook to grow rubber in Brazil. His idea was not to use the wild trees, but to clear the jungle, adopt the plantation method, use selected seeds. Great were the tales of what Ford Initiative plus Ford Ingenuity plus Ford Resource plus the fertile Amazon soil would produce...
...contained certain clauses which angered Brazilians, made a political issue out of the enterprise. Suspicion increased so soon as he paid more than the average wage-scale. He encountered difficulties in exporting seeds from other Brazilian states to Para, where his plantation is. Few of the rubber trees planted have survived...
...labor. If orientals could be imported, rubbermen think the project might succeed. As it is, even the high Ford wage-scale has not attracted more than 2,000 where 5,000 are wanted. Riots and strikes have broken out; hospitals have been and are busy. A writer in India-Rubber Journal (London) last fortnight said liquor consumption on the plantation has increased 1,000%, a cabaret has opened adjacent to it. Rubbermen last week said the Ford plantation's closing down was only a matter of days...