Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spry Uncle Fred sat in his office last week, and snapped a rubber band. He was melancholy. Said he: "If an institution stays around for ten years, it has probably done all it can do. . . . I plan soon to go to Alaska again to gather some data for the War Department. . . . The work? It is bound to come back again, of course...
...four daylight raids on Germany and three on Occupied France, the Eighth Air Force dropped "between 2,000 and 3,000 tons." (Correspondents thought it was nearer 3,000 tons.) Heaviest U.S. load on a single target: 500 tons, concentrated on a synthetic rubber plant...
...this, the Japanese stopped shooting. Lieut. Matson hit the water, inflated his rubber raft, climbed aboard it, covered himself with his parachute, went to sleep. An hour later, a crash boat rescued...
Greek-born Dimitri Mitropoulos, maestro of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, familiarized himself with the instruments of a Red Cross mobile blood-collecting unit. Touring Minnesota with the unit between concerts, he sometimes doffed the rubber gloves of an orderly to draw crowds with his piano playing-both long-hair and boogie-woogie...
...scarcely dry on the contract between U.S. Rubber and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, May 17) when another great company decided to play patron to another great orchestra. Following Rubber's nationwide Sunday hookup (CBS, 3 p.m., E.W.T.), General Motors will sponsor another national Sunday concert, by the NBC Symphony (NBC, 5 p.m., E.W.T.). The cost to G.M. for a year is about the same as that to Rubber-around...