Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total program for the production of synthetic rubber has fulfilled its purpose in time of war and presumably can in time of peace," President Conant told the Harvard Chapter of Sigma Xi fraternity last night at the Fogg Museum...
...through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain. In fact, his mother and three sisters were caught in Leipzig when Hitler declared war on America-went through three of the heaviest bombings there ("The house was like rubber, bending back and forth, the floor rising up and down like waves...
...rubber program, floundering under increasing military schedules and short ages of components for tires, was again in trouble. As a result, WPB cut the April allotment of civilian tires a third to 1,000,000, lowest quota in a year. Holders of A cards and most holders of Bs could hope for no new tires for months...
...Government-owned war factories, employing 50,000 workers, had been released for civilian production. Simultaneously came news that one of Britain's leading automobile makers, Standard of Coventry, whose trademark is a Union Jack, had been freed from war output a month ago. Dunlop of Speke (manufacturer of rubber products) had been similarly released last fortnight...
...very pale and dirty marine lay on another table. A corpsman was adjusting the rubber tube carrying the whole blood to his arm. Dr. Silvis said: ""See his lips. He's washed up." Then he turned to the corpsman and said: "Let's give him another bottle and put it in the femoral [big vein in each groin]-the blood can run in faster than it can through...