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...scrap rubber piled up in reclamation heaps last week, many a citizen wondered how-and even whether-you could separate the rubber from a raincoat. It is possible and simple, explained rubber technologists last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rubber from Rubber | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...reclaimed from 140 lb. of inner tubing, 165 lb. of bathing caps and shoes, or 175 lb. of hot-water bags. Some 94 tons of rubber gloves can yield the 75 tons of crude used in building a large warship. Five old overshoes are enough for one Army raincoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rubber from Rubber | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...rubber. You'll be surprised how much turns up once you get going. A few pieces of rubber tubing from a chemistry course, a pair of sneakers worn out by four-days-a-week physical training, a used bicycle tire, a rubber seat cushion, an out-of-style rubberized raincoat-there is no end to the number of articles that will come to the surface. It's worth taking two minutes of your time to look over your room. And the Square is crowded with gas stations-you won't have far to walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rubber Out of Rubbish | 6/26/1942 | See Source »

...double-header-the game that was played and the one that McNamee announced. But he had a knack of being breathless, exciting even when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes in a downpour. Twenty-five million people heard him describe the Tunney-Dempsey long count, the broadcast he was proudest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Voice of the '20s | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Along the stately crescent of Regent Street the Londoner stepped out briskly without his winter rubbers. He wore his beige raincoat and had his umbrella at the ready, but he swung it; the air was soft and the lengthening days were heady. He forgot to notice that the sidewalks would be wider if the sandbags could be removed, that the skyline was neater before the bombs fell. A car starting up suddenly might make him jump. His children, when they hid in closets and crawled under chairs, informed him pertly that they were playing "shelter." But almost no one said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Hand of Spring | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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