Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mess. Even before she entered the war, the U-boats had smashed the vital shipping routes along her 4,899-mile coastline. She was starved for imported manufactures. Buyers were scarce for her coffee, cotton, cacao. The Allies were screaming for unheard-of amounts of manganese, rubber, bauxite, mica, other strategic materials...
Thoughts of Home. In Aurora, Ill., Mrs. Mildred Bugbee gratefully received a package of Old World treasures from her Navy husband in Italy: four pairs of rubber pants for the baby...
...Constitutional? Maryland's legal-minded Millard Tydings, who finally voted for the bill anyhow, cracked: "We are all stretching the rubber band of constitutional sufficiency in order to support the pending measure...
...patients' homes, the city dumps, the city hog farm, the sewers. The hospital staff began to think up desperately ingenious tactics. New manholes were opened, miles of sewer explored. Since water screens radium rays, the searchers debated draining the sewers or dragging sensitive film enclosed in a rubber hose through the water...
Ordinary, earth-bound citizens can find: gasoline-electric generators, rubber hose, portable air compressors, tube bending tables, electric concrete drills, assorted hammers, miter boxes, saws, marlin spikes, drills and bits, wrenches, pliers, nippers, turpentine, castor oil, hinges, screws, nuts, bolts, washers ("Just What You've Been Waiting For!")-even typewriter ribbons and photograph albums. All goods are sold on the basis of bids...