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