Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether in London or at Chartwell, his country place in Kent, he stayed in bed until noon. From 11 o'clock on, wrapped in a Chinese dressing gown, he received callers at his bedside. Across his broad belly would be a bed table, on which he rested his rubber-padded elbows; next to his bed, the invariable telephones, cigars, watches, pens and pencils...
...martial law, throttled the press. But even among the elite his popularity began to fade when he allowed his sons too flagrantly to acquire expropriated German property. The elite moreover became convinced that he had lost official U.S. favor. He was also identified with the ill-starred, U.S.-financed rubber-production scheme, which fizzled out in Haiti before war's end. Living costs trebled, the average peasant was eating only one meal a day. Tight, teeming Haiti was ready for a change...
...John Luter reported: no hidden stocks of tin, and no mine would operate for months to come. The Japs had looted the bulk of the engineering tools, flooded the mines, left destruction and decay behind them. The plight of the tin mines was far worse than that of the rubber plantations, which had been comparatively unharmed...
...until the managers of the big estates, who were chased out or imprisoned by the Japs, return. There were 1,400 in Malaya before the war. Now there are only 120. Many are still recuperating in England and Australia from the starvation of concentration camps. Nevertheless, production of natural rubber (not nearly as vital at present as tin to the U.S.) is expected to be up to 25 or 30% of normal in six months. Within a year it is expected to reach 60%. Few planters were worried about the competition of the war-built U.S. synthetic industry. They...
...Lewis Burrie Swift, president of Rochester's Taylor Instrument Cos., which turned out 40,000 instruments for Oak Ridge, more than had been needed in the synthetic rubber and high octane programs combined...