Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned off a Jersey City street and rolled ponderously into the tube of the Holland Tunnel, bound for Manhattan. Nobody gave it a second glance-trucks, cars, cabs and buses had been rumbling through the tunnel, day & night, for 22 years (15.6 million passed through in 1948), and the rubber-tired monster looked as harmless and submissive as a sheep in a stockyard runway...
...carried a fearsome cargo-eighty 55-gallon drums of carbon disulphide, a poisonous and volatile chemical used as a solvent in making rayon and rubber goods. When it had trundled three-fourths of a mile along the echoing, white-tiled, two-mile tube, one of the drums mysteriously exploded. Glaring gouts of flame and clouds of choking yellow fumes burst from the trailer; the driver took one horrified look in his rear-vision mirror, jumped out, ran and leaped on a truck passing in the other lane...
Hothead. The Burmese streamed out of doors to pour pots of water over the ground and offer up prayers to Thi-gya-min. Early next morning, clad in bright blue, red or green skirt-like longyis and rubber bathing caps, they set out with more water for the pagodas, to wash the sacred images. Cold drinks, tea and Burman spaghetti were served at marquees at almost every street corner and gay music sounded everywhere. Pious oldsters listened to the discourse of holy men, and everywhere the Burmese splashed one another with a will...
Their machines had ground to a stop because there was no carbon black, the toughening agent which comprises about 30% of a tire's rubber carcass and tread. The supply from the U.S. had been cut because of Britain's shortage of dol lars. "For days," remembered one grimy worker, Leslie Joseph Pridmore, last week, "our machines stood silent and we were idle. Without 'black' we couldn...
...battle went on with few outward signs of drama. Rumpled, red-eyed Senators shuffled on & off the Senate floor, but in offices and cloakrooms nerves snapped like old rubber bands. Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath traded hot-tempered words with Negro Leader Walter White, who accused the Democrats of forgetting "the oldest law in politics: taking care of the people who took care of you on election...