Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their C.I.O. running mates, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, hustled to get in line. Both I.L.G.W.U. and Amalgamated had long delayed their wage demands because their employers were running into bad times. But now that business was booming again, both intended to get an increase of 15%. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers beat the drums for 31?, probably would settle for about 25?, while the East Coast longshoremen set out to get another 37? an hour for their 30,000 members. In addition, countless individual craft and trade unionists, e.g., the A.F.L.'s 900,000 construction workers, were quietly pushing...
Harrison's views on inventory buying differed considerably from those of the Security Resources Board's W. Stuart Symington. Before a Senate subcommittee Chairman Symington angrily denounced the few "unpatriotic chiselers" and black marketeers who had built up inventories and pushed prices up, notably in crude rubber. Symington even threatened that the U.S. might seize the stocks of such "hoarders...
Actually, as President Alan Grant of Manhattan's C. T. Wilson & Co. (importers) told the subcommittee, the fact that the U.S. was short of rubber was the Government's own fault. It could have bought all the rubber it wanted for stockpiling at 16? a lb. last November; now it has to pay 55? simply because world demand is so great and Russia is buying huge quantities...
Government-owned reserve defense plants, Johnson reported, had been allowed to deteriorate. Such onetime "surplus" items as a synthetic rubber plant, airplane engines and radio equipment had been put up for sale while the U.S. was frantically remobilizing for Korea. Rubber stockpiling had slacked off while the need loomed greater than ever. "If we find in the other fields," said Johnson, "the same siesta psychology that we found in surplus disposal and rubber, our work is certainly...
...pack contained a glob of soggy rice, freshly cooked and wrapped in a dirty blue cloth, a shovel, a tin cup and a spoon; he had no first-aid kit, no ammunition belt (he carried his bullets loose in his pocket), and no canteen. His shoes were Korean-made rubber sneakers...