Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that Brazil's 80,000-man Army was adequate to protect her. War Minister General G. Eurica Dutra beamed, but he knew as well as President Vargas that Brazil's chief value to continental defense lies not in its Army but in its raw materials-among them, rubber...
President Vargas certainly ought to have known that. In his 10,000 miles, which had carried him up the Amazon basin from Belem to Manaus and beyond, he had rubber-necked at a few of an estimated 300,000,000 untapped wild rubber trees, visited Fordlandia and Belterra, where Henry Ford has a $20,000,000 investment in some 2,500,000 acres. On his return the President had some pretty fancy plans to announce...
declared that his company has produced a successful conducting rubber. Whereas natural rubber has a resistance of 1,000,000,000,000,000 ohms per cubic centimetre, Dunlop's conducting tire rubber records only 30 ohms per c.c., its cable rubber only ten ohms. On how the rubber is made, Engineer Elden was mum. Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. has taken out no patents, for patenting would make the details public, but has begun to market its conducting rubber...
...Rubber which conducts electricity sounds like an anomaly-but such a rubber would be an advantage for airplane and truck tires, for rubber hospital floors. Reason: conducting rubber would continuously discharge static electricity, prevent it from accumulating to the point of spark peril. Static sparks in hospitals have been known to cause anesthetics to explode. In The Rubber Age, Engineer Howard E. Elden of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp...
...secret Bachite coating process may make cheap black plate iron important to National Defense as an abundant and rust-resistant substitute for ordinary uses of: 1. Rubber. 2. Aluminum. 3. Copper. 4. Tin. 5. Lead...