Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...stockpiles; 2) reclaimed rubber; 3) synthetic rubber; 4) foreign sources within the U. S. Fleet's protection. Since big time production of synthetic rubber would be at least two years away, handiest source of new rubber in the Western Hemisphere is the guayule bush in Mexico, Hevea tree in Brazil...
Best all-round rubber tree is Brazil's Hevea brasiliensis, and for decades Pará was another name for rubber. As world demand arose, grew, skyrocketed, upper Amazon adventurers rose to be bloody kings and barons. Their technique was simple: enslavement, torture, rape, starvation and murder, plus a fantastic use of company-store methods that had washerwomen in sleazy evening gowns and everybody in debt till the year after eternity. Hundreds of miles up the jungle rivers they fought feudal wars with one another. At the height of the rubber boom in 1909-10, rubber...
...Chicago's Swift & Co. hunted for a chemical which would delay the spoiling of lard by oxidation and would protect lard's linoleic constituent, rich in vitamin F. They finally found what they wanted in gum guaiac, made from the sap of the tropical American guaiacum tree. Swift's President John Holmes said that lard treated with tiny amounts of gum guaiac was odorless, bland in flavor...
...Republican Convention opened with the most popular of the new songs currently reflecting American surge of patriotism, W.P.A.-written: 1. Ballad for Americans. 2. God Bless America. 3. I Am an American. 4. Our Side of the Ocean. 5. And They Lynched Him on a Tree...
...TREE OF LIBERTY, a best selling novel, is the basis of Hollywood's latest film on the American Revolution: 1. Adam Bede. 2. The Howards of Virginia. 3. Independence Hall. 4. Patrick Henry. 5. The Boston Tea Party...