Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Link is made to feel almost like one of the family. Pop (Victor Moore), an after-the-whistle Edison, gums up their first handshake with some ersatz rubber. A young brother, ghoulishly interested in medicine, counts Link's metatarsals and pleads for a dram of blood. A budding sister hopes Link will marry her ("Plenty of girls marry before they...
...speed, altitude and trail (air and ground lag) had already been set on the sight indicators. As the target came in view, Arpaia's problem was to calculate in a flash the correct dropping angle, make this final adjustment. Then he hunched tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they...
...little in FRB's scales. Thus, when the industry mushroomed under astronomical orders for explosives, the FRB index failed to show it. To rectify this, FRB boosted the statistical importance of this industry, added some 20 others to the index and found new yardsticks, e.g., in the converted rubber industry, man-hours worked replaced the former measure of activity-rubber consumption. All this forced FRB to boost the index 36 points to 243 (1935-39 average equals 100). The present statistical results: 1) U.S. industrial volume is 2.4 times, instead of merely twice, that of peace years; 2) more...
OPAster Bonnett made his ominous prediction before the rubber conservation conference of 2,000 tire dealers in Manhattan. His unstretchable rubber facts: U.S. passenger-tire stocks, new & used, shrank from 14,400,000 last January to 4,200,000 on Sept. 1. To assure adequate distribution, the U.S. cannot permit stocks to fall below this rock-bottom level. Thus it can no longer dip into the stockpile which kept the U.S. rolling for two years. From now on, civilian tire needs must be supplied from new tire manufacture. Estimated needs for the last four months of this year...
Swelling synthetic rubber production lulled many a U.S. citizen into the pleasant belief that the rubber-tired nation had rolled safely past the crisis point (TIME, Oct. 18). Last week, OPA's Tire Ration Chief, Sparks Bonnett, jolted them as roughly as a blowout on a curve. Said he: the vise-tight pinch in tires is just beginning...