Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grows in Brooklyn, and her publishers, Harper & Brothers, had a quarter-million dollar libel suit grafted on them by Miss Smith's cousin, Mrs. Sadie Grandner of Brooklyn. Perilously perched on the legal limb was a character in the novel, one Aunt Sissie, who once worked in a rubber factory, had eight stillborn children, called all three of her husbands John. "Public scandal, infamy, and disgrace," claimed 60-year-old Cousin Sadie, who has been called Sissie for some 50 years, once worked in a rubber factory, had four shortlived children, two husbands named John...
...began, he told Harvard students that war was not much worse than "crossing the traffic in Harvard Square." In 1940 Dr. Elliott went to Washington as consultant for the National Defense Advisory Commission; the next year he became OPM's raw materials expert, loudly urged stockpiling of tin, rubber, etc. He rightly predicted that the U.S. might soon be cut off by Japan from its chief supply sources. Surviving the transmutation of 0PM into WPB, he became its chief of Stockpiling and Transportation. So good was his stockpiling job that WPB is now worrying about its surplus metals. Lately...
...Peaceful People. In the 17th Century, Spanish friars and soldiers failed to convert the Lacandones, who still worship Mayan gods. Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged...
...behind Candidate Simpson and pushed hard. So did the Negro-baiting Alabama Sun and Alabama Magazine, whose specialty is pictures showing Eleanor Roosevelt being civil to Negroes. Simpson campaigners vigorously lambasted Lister Hill as a traitor to Southern ideals, a tool of Washington's "radical Yankee" Administration, a "rubber stamp" for "C.I.O. bosses," a typical New Dealer. New Dealer Hill won by 25,000 votes...
Pots, Chamber, round, rubber, lunatic...