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Word: buckskins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...metal is used in the new tanks except for pipe connections and caps. The inside shell is fibre sheeting braced with fibre ribs. Over that is a layer of buckskin, next a layer of raw rubber one-eighth inch thick, covered by a thin skin of vulcanized rubber. When a bullet pierces the tank, the raw rubber reunites and the buckskin is swelled by leaking gasoline, so that together they plug the hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Rubber and Buckskin | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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