Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union Pacific's red-faced, confident president William M. Jeffers, who went to Washington a year ago as U.S. rubber czar, last week confidently resigned. Wrote he to Franklin Roosevelt: "The big job ... is done. . . . The greatest contribution that I can make ... is to return to an on-the-job handling of the operations of the Union Pacific Railroad...
Tough, bulky Bill Jeffers, who took over his job knowing nothing about rubber, proved that he knew how to get things done. Two-thirds of the proposed synthetic-rubber plants, his office announced, are already in operation or ready for operation. The rest will have been completed by late October. Two-fisted Bill Jeffers, railroad man for 53 of his 67 years, carefully explained that he was not leaving Washington in a huff. The Union Pacific, said he, "is a hell of a big railroad which needs my attention...
Last week the Maritime Commission announced that it would discontinue the services that had already cost it an estimated $2 million. The Commission will spend $375,000 more for 50 new busses, with 200 fat rubber tires and a total capacity of only 2,050 passengers...
...Being "taken to see the pigs" means a trip to a little shack near the camp hogpen. There "Big Jim" Bryant, a 7 ft. 2½ in., 300-lb. guard, holds the door shut while Warden Clay administers a whipping-up to 50 lashes-with a rubber hose...
...Puratized Process, in six variations, is being sold to some 150 processors of textiles, leather, etc., who end up with mildew-proof mosquito netting, rubber life rafts, webbing, boots, etc. for the Army & Navy. It is so potent, Frank Sowa figures, that 200 gallons would mildew-proof all the shoes in the U.S. Army...