| 21. | Max worked as a machinist for 38 years, including 31.5 years at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Topeka.
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| 22. | Mathew's neighbors tell him he's crazy not to replace his pepper vines and pineapple and coconut trees with rubber plants.
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| 23. | But when I pass the word on to the boys behind the rubber plants, they're going to be mighty disappointed.
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| 24. | But its " needles " are thin, rather droopy leaves, like those on a rubber plant in a Manhattan office.
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| 25. | Larry finds a job at the rubber plant and meets Hans, a German worker, and Jasper, a prankster of sorts.
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| 26. | It was more than three months before he found a position in the Hutchinson Rubber Plant near Montargis, in February 1922.
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| 27. | Some entrepreneurs had smuggled out cuttings from rubber plants and began cultivation in southeast Asia in colonies of the British Empire.
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| 28. | The Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant in Union City was the only plant licensed to produce tires for the Chevrolet Corvette.
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| 29. | Tires had been rationed due to shortages of natural rubber; however, the U . S . government built synthetic rubber plants.
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| 30. | The plant will branch at the cut but may not do so evenly ( rubber plants are famous for lopsided extensions ).
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