Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...synthetic-rubber situation, which seemed well in hand when Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers resigned last month, was somewhat out of hand again last week. Five major tire makers warned of a possible breakdown in tire making, chiefly because of shortages in manpower and rayon cord. The total tire reserve was down to less than 3,000,000. The manufacturers doubted that they could meet the goal of 30,000,000 new tires next year. And some disappointed motorists began to raise doubts about the quality of synthetic-rubber tires...
...call an extraordinary session of the Diet on Oct. 25, to rubber-stamp all changes planned by Tojo...
...Defense Plant Corp. alone owns all or part of 1,753 war plants worth $9 billion, DPC represents everything from 10% of U.S. steel capacity to 100% of a synthetic rubber industry bigger than the entire prewar domestic market. Until U.S. businessmen find out how the U.S. Government plans to dispose of this industrial machine, much of their own postwar planning is planning in a vacuum...
...their place the President set up the Foreign Economic Administration, put in shrewd, ambitious Leo Crowley as its head. Leonine Leo also took authority over RFC subsidiaries dealing with foreign economic problems (Metals Reserve Co. and Rubber Reserve Co.), retained the board chairmanship of the U.S. Commercial Corp. through which he controls all foreign purchases...
...engineers have worked at the new hearing device and a way to mass-produce it. Besides the economy of mass production, costs are cut by 1) providing the device with a tone regulator so that the wearer can adjust his own aid, eliminating professional "fittings," 2) providing rubber earpieces of various sizes so that the aid will fit any ear, 3) having customers send the aid directly to the factory for servicing, 4) lengthening battery life (batteries benefit from the regulator feature...