Rubber Boom/the First Rubber Boom 1879-1912

Famous quotes containing the words rubber and/or boom:

    “First, are you our sort of a person?
    Do you wear
    A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch,
    A brace or a hook,
    Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch,

    Stitches to show something’s missing?”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)