Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress got from World War I's tough Supplyman Charles G. Dawes-came this week from Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers. The Senate Agriculture Committee, loaded with cotton Senators, called him on the carpet. His crime was that he had planned to expand rayon production to get enough fabric for military tires-instead of substituting cotton, which is likely to overheat. Jeffers promptly threw the carpet over his hecklers' heads...
True, the activated charcoal-soda lime will stop the vapors of all war gases . . . from going through the orifice of the tin can, but it will not stop damage to the skin, eyes, lungs by the mustard-gas vapor that goes through the rubber. The fact that rubberized fabric is used in military gas masks has probably served for the foundation of the A.W.V.S. fallacy. But the gas mask is of an entirely different grade of rubber and is quite thick in comparison to rubber underwear...
...concrete and steel. The spirit of the great Fritz Todt, who built the wondrously interlaced strong points in the unused Westwall, lies over the oppressed land. German gunners stand at their stations in fortress and foxhole, ready to spin the threads of their fire into the tightly woven fabric of resistance to invasion. British bombers and fighters pluck the threads and blast the weavers, whipping across the Channel in great swarms. Every day there is rebuilding to be done. Every day calls for more characteristically German refinement of a defense system that can never be woven too stoutly, nor extended...
...scientists' eyes opened to the fact that these plagues are periodic, ebbing & flowing almost as regularly as the tides. Says Zoologist Elton: animal populations were formerly thought to be fairly stable, fluctuating only by chance. Now they are known to recur regularly, so that the biomass-"the living fabric of the world" -may be said to pulsate like the diastole and systole of a mighty heart...
China's whole national fabric, corroded by the Japanese attrition, has in the past seven months undergone terrible moral and material shocks. She has found that the Allies, instead of alleviating her position, have increased her immediate difficulties tenfold. She is bewildered by the crushing defeats America and Britain have suffered. Her Burma Road-her so-called lifeline-has been cut. Half the army she sent to Burma may never return. Japan has launched a new attack, designed to conquer her remaining railway lines and perhaps eventually capture Kunming and deliver a death blow...