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...Ersatz" rubber is already being produced in this country by all the major American rubber companies and has proved even more durable than the national product for certain articles rung as gasoline hose, oil-retaining gaskets pump packing, deducing surfaces and bullet proof tanks...
...Lecturing on civilian defense, Colonel Farraday "showed us how to work a stirrup pump and advised us all to get one, adding that there are none to be had anywhere just now. He also explained how to put up an Anderson steel shelter and said that none were being issued in this part of the country...
...high-school diploma, worked his salary up to $300 a week. Daughter of an undertaker she had just completed a course in embalming prior to her marriage. Skelton has never forgotten his friends' warnings that if he married her she could easily slit him open while he slept, pump him full of embalming fluid. Says he: "To this day I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat. . . . I have to go out of the room when she slices bread...
Just as bewildered was the man at the pump. A message from Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes shed no light. Declaring that equitable "apportioning" should be done by filling-station operators so as to exact "as few hardships" as possible, he declared: "You can no more fail in [this task] than can a soldier, a sailor or a worker in a vital defense industry...
...order was obviously a stopgap. Before the East's supply of oil became critically short (on account of a tanker shortage), oilmen expected Washington would finally have to take on itself the nasty task of rationing individuals. The man at the pump obviously could not do the job in a way satisfactory to his customers or to the Government...