Word: rubbers
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Millionaire Funkhouser is board chairman of O'Sullivan Rubber Co. ("America's No. 1 Heel"), an evangelist by temperament, a Republican by adoption. He left West Virginia a poor boy, came back rich at 50 to spend "the afternoon of my life with my own people." That afternoon is being spent in considerable comfort in a 34-room mansion near Charles Town built in 1820 by a grandnephew of George Washington, and "restored" last year by Mrs. Funkhouser. His opponents like to point out that he teaches Sunday School in one wing of the mansion and plays poker...
...important comes not from his rivals but from the state's G.O.P. boss, National Republican Vice Chairman Walter Hallanan. Hallanan, an independent oil producer, was at odds with Funkhouser even before Leon Henderson started swinging at independent oilmen in a radio series 'sponsored by Funkhouser's rubber company. Hallanan denounces Funkhouser as a moneybagged interloper trying to buy office, and a party turncoat whose two previous small-time political offices (one as town supervisor of swank, suburban Harrison, N.Y.) were won as a Democrat. R.J., who says he has voted Republican since 1924, explains his registration...
...must have 1,400,000 more men, almost all to be drawn from essential industries. Meantime, they pointed out, critical industries are short of manpower right now. Aircraft plants need 200,000 workers, navy yards 5,000 for construction of submarines alone, radio and radar factories 30,000, synthetic-rubber plants...
William Martin ("Bull Bill") Jeffers, Union Pacific office boy turned U.P. president, recently chief bridger of the wartime rubber gap, won the American Irish Historical Society's annual gold medal for outstanding achievement by a wearer of the green...
...than a decade. Deprived of her royalties by the German occupation (her Jewish publishers in Paris had been liquidated), she died in comparative obscurity. The era that her fragile, saccharine little piano pieces (most famed: The Scarf Dance) represented had long since closed. Hers had been the age of rubber plants, stereoscopic views, and parlor trances over Ethelbert Kevin's The Rosary...