Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Ensign Evan Welling Thomas II, 23, son of Socialist Norman Thomas; and Anna Davis Robins, 18, daughter of Hewitt Rubber Co. President Thomas Robins Jr.; in Buffalo...
Home last week from a 20,000-mile jaunt through the U.S., South America and England, bland, bulky Paul Weeks Litchfield, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s big-framed president, was chock full of war and postwar plans. Said...
...spoiled piece of the earth went flashy Colonel Flaviano Mattos Vanique with 30 technical experts, 70 roustabouts and science's most modern equipment. Their object: to open for colonization the Mato Grosso (Big Woods) province, half again the size of Texas; to map topography, explore for gold, diamonds, rubber and platinum...
...Mikado's cities have been "treacherously and inhumanly" bombed. Tiny children in uniform are shown being trained to fight. Tokyo, its streets a blaze of light, is obviously sneering at blackouts. Jap propaganda films "prove" that only force pays, that by its victories the nation already possesses sufficient rubber, timber and other raw materials to carry on a war that will wear out the rest of the world...
Most effective and widely used device now is a deicer: B. F. Goodrich's "rubber-boot"-a rubber strip fastened in place along the leading edges of the wings. When the pilot shoots compressed air into the boot, it expands and contracts, the ice cracks off. But the addition of the rubber strip increases the wind drag on the plane, i.e., decreases its lift; the strip has to be taken off during the summer months to make it last even as long as two winters; repair jobs are frequently necessary on spots subject to severe strain. A ground check...