Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Definitions: Semaphore--a graduated Freshman; cipher--to get gasoline with a rubber hose...
Most jockeys are slaves to scales. As riders soar towards the 110 Ib. danger line, out come sweatboxes and rubber suits for roadwork under a broiling sun. Some live on black coffee, cigarets and an occasional graham cracker. At 27, tall by jockey heights (5 ft. 2¼ in.), Ted Atkinson needs none of these. His average weight (stripped...
...International Rubber Regulation Committee, with almost nothing left to regulate, last week decided on a new course - cooperation. IRRC's life expired on Dec. 31. But the Committee, created in 1934 by Dutch, French, Siamese, British and Indian Governments controlling over 95% of the world's crude rubber production, refused to die. It extended its feeble life for four more months, during which time it proposed to reincarnate itself as a "more widely representative committee for consultation and collection of information." Rubber-consuming countries (such as the U.S.), which were kept on the sidelines in the years when...
Thus the British and Dutch rubber producers took a more realistic position. They fear U.S. synthetic rubber production, and its possible tariff protection in the postwar era, more than the mischief of the Japs on their conquered plantations...
...trucks are only part of the trouble. Tires are a critical shortage. The Committee found that, despite glowing reports on synthetic rubber production, there will be a deficiency of about three million truck tires in 1944, and that heavy-duty tires made 70% of synthetic rubber will not stand up in service. To the tire industry the report said sourly: "The Committee is disappointed that the synthetic rubber tire manufacturing program has proceeded so far without solving the problem of making satisfactory heavy-duty tires for trucks and busses...