Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time to the prospects of peace, there were dislocations in industry and among workers. There were strikes. At the Indiana Brass Co., in Elkhart, Ind., police used tear-gas bombs to break up a clash of pickets and workers. In Akron, where 16,700 rubber workers were out, Selective Service was ordered to cancel draft deferments. In 63 specific war-producing areas labor was still tight, but in Detroit, Buffalo and San Francisco workers were losing jobs faster than they could find new ones...
...Nitrogen-producing equipment only slightly damaged. ¶Similar capacity for producing petroleum products, rubber, bearings, electric power, electrical and electronic equipment, wood products, precision and optical instruments...
Doctor of Laws: Bradley Dewey '08, former Rubber Director of the War Production Board: President of the Dewey and Almy Chemical Company in Cambridge: "A Cambridge industrialist whose Herculean labors in a federal office gave us the rubber on which we now roll to victory...
Island & Thumb. One force-including mechanized Commandos-took Labuan Island, key to the harbor, from a Japanese garrison of 500. With it came Victoria town, two airfields, 4,000 Japanese bombs, rubber and coconut plantations. Stronger groups pounced on the thumb of land that poked up into the bay from the mainland -and on its satellite, Muara Island. They went in standing up and quickly took the hamlet of Brooketon, where tun-bellied Major General George Frederick Wootten, 250-lb. division commander, set up headquarters. Then they moved into Brunei town-a dismal conglomeration of dilapidated native shacks built...
...rubber manufactures, 1.3 million...