Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese feel that the Wedemeyer mission was only a rubber stamp for a long-held Marshall decision to let China stew in her own juice. Just after Wedemeyer left for home, several Kuomintang elders had a session with the Generalissimo. Tears flowed. Breasts were beaten. Without additional U.S. help and with Russian intervention likely to increase, where could China turn? One leader suggested the inevitable: rapprochement with Russia, and proposed sending Elder Statesman Chen Li-fu to Moscow...
...subscript o are variations in the price of oats, V and V subscript o are variations in the price of horses, N and N subscript o the current price range in rubber tires, and a, b, c, d, e are "coefficients whose total value...
...Goodrich Co. reported that since the war the most popular size in rubber gloves has been 7½ instead of the prewar 8, which might indicate that U.S. hands are getting smaller...
Loosened Grip. Another wartime restriction died quietly when the Department of Commerce removed the restrictions on the use of natural rubber for some 30,000 industrial products. Unaffected by the new ruling were automobile tires and tubes, whose natural-rubber content will continue to be fixed (23% for pleasure cars). By maintaining its control over the automobile industry's rubber supply, which accounts for 72% of U.S. rubber consumption, the Department hopes to keep at least part of the U.S. synthetic rubber industry operating...
Hatches & Horrors. Twice the President had to duck objects hurled at him. One time a dagger was thrown; it was made of rubber. Another time, during a parade, a well-wrapped ham sandwich dropped into his lap from an apartment house in The Bronx...