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...consumes 75% of all the latex (sap) milked from rubber trees throughout the world. Great Britain, with Dutch assistance, controls the world's rubber supplies and, through its (Sir James) Stevenson Restriction Plan, the prices of crude rubber...
...should not be cut off; it should be made to grow. "Scholastic achievements must be made a part of youth, not youth a part of scholastic achievements." Here undoubtedly he has hit upon a vital point. Since youth is so valuable--and so fleeting--will not scholasticism tend to sap its strength? If allowed to overwhelm youth, it will; in the correct proportion, however, larger intellectual fields will be an aid to the preservation of the first part of life...
Selective breeding of plants that will grow out of the tropics, such as the wild guayule shrub of Texas and Mexico was recommended to U. S. manufacturers now endangered by Britain's rubber monopoly. Guayule does not contain rubber as latex (milky sap) but as small particles among its fibres. The shrub must be cut down and pulverized to extract these particles, less than a pound to each bush. None the less, President George H. Carnahan of the Continental Rubber Co., showed that guayule plantations totaling only 1,000 sq. mi. would supply 25% of this country...
...Test. An exhibit showed the high accuracy of a Russian test for determining, from a drop of blood or sap, an organism's sex. In nearly every case, the female was chemically more active than the male...
TIME of Nov. 9, p. 29, credits President Hibben of Princeton, Lowell of Harvard, Farrand of Cornell, Kinley of Illinois and Chase of North Carolina with the elevating experience of seeing Yale outmarch the Army. No one of them was present! Verbum sap...