Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stacked like cordwood; in others the stiff, twisted remains had been heaped together as they fell. Some had been officers, some privates; all wore faded blue-grey uniforms and tarnished brass buttons with the Polish eagle still recognizable. Dr. Prozorovsky wore a white smock, an orange apron and red rubber gloves. Kathy had on a plaid skirt, an orange pullover sweater and garnet nail polish...
Erseats. In Washington, Assistant to the Director of Civilian Requirements Austion Grimshaw admitted that substitute fabrics for babies' waterproof pants were not working out too well, allotted some rubber to their makers...
There was one hopeful note-of pledges kept-that got buried in the news of strikes, threats and Government maneuverings. Seventy-two Akron rubber workers staged an unauthorized strike. Their union (C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers), ruling that the strikers had broken the union's agreement with the management, promptly revoked their memberships...
After two seasons of soggy, reclaimed-rubber "victory balls," tennis players will get a new bounce this year. Balls are being made of synthetic rubber, and there will be plenty of them...
...quite so lively as prewar balls of natural rubber, synthetics are far peppier than balls made of reclaimed rubber. Each ball contains 8/10 oz. of buna, sells for the usual 50?. Dunlop, Spalding, Voit and Pennsylvania (who make all U.S. tennis balls, under their own and others' names) are all in production, with pioneering Pennsylvania already popping...