Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman William H. Davis of the War Labor Board, rock-solid defender of Little Steel, finally conceded that his prize formula was outmoded. In a monthly report to the Senate he said: "As the months flow by and the board continues to hold wages ... we become increasingly conscious of the fact that we are asking one segment of our society to do its part to protect all Americans from the ravages of inflation . . . [although] a similar obligation has not been placed as heavily upon . . . some of the other segments of this society...
EARL POORE Little Rock...
...Malta now serves as a rock-ribbed mother ship for the invasion of Italy...
...equals 100). The present statistical results: 1) U.S. industrial volume is 2.4 times, instead of merely twice, that of peace years; 2) more than 70% of U.S. industrial production, instead of some 65%, is in war goods. (This was a shocker to some experts who had figured the civilian rock-bottom as 35% of all production...
...before the rubber conservation conference of 2,000 tire dealers in Manhattan. His unstretchable rubber facts: U.S. passenger-tire stocks, new & used, shrank from 14,400,000 last January to 4,200,000 on Sept. 1. To assure adequate distribution, the U.S. cannot permit stocks to fall below this rock-bottom level. Thus it can no longer dip into the stockpile which kept the U.S. rolling for two years. From now on, civilian tire needs must be supplied from new tire manufacture. Estimated needs for the last four months of this year: 9,400,000. Estimated synthetic-tire production...