rubber campaign
Congo And Amazon Rivers (British Official Wireless.) BTJGBY, July 29. Answering questions in. the House of Commons about supplies of rubber from overseas, the .production supervisor. Mr. Lyttelton, replied that agreement had been reached.with the ’Belgian Colonial Ministry under which the British Government - would purchase the rubber output of the Congo at a price calculated to bring forward the' maximum quantities available. I The Belgian authorities had estab-, lished a commission to stimulate the production of plantation rubber and wild .rubber, and steps had been taken to reopen abandoned plantations and ro transfer labour from less essential industry and public needs for the collection of wild rubber. The production of rubber in Brazil, and; Bolivia was being dealt with by the United States Government, which had : concluded, an agreement to spend 5,000.000 dollars on developing rubber in the Amazon basin, and to send a mission to develop . the rubber resources there and buy all Brazil’s exportable surplus. The United States was also buying the total production of Boliyiari rubber.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 259, 31 July 1942, Page 6
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171rubber campaign Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 259, 31 July 1942, Page 6
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