Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 85,000 workers were on strike, chiefly against the War Labor Board, during parts of last week. In Detroit 25,000 men struck six major plants for three days because of delays by WLB in hearing their grievances. In Akron 40,000 rubber workers stopped work when WLB granted them only a 3?-an-hour pay rise instead of an expected 8? rise. Many a union, apparently, was discovering that Government is just as tough a taskmaster as private industry. Others were following the lead of John L. Lewis: strike down WLB or any other agency that refuses wage...
...Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers wrote his third progress report to the U.S. people as the biggest, most fully integrated synthetic rubber plant formally began operations in West Virginia. Said Czar Jeffers...
...first the destroyer saw nothing more than the flotsam of defeat-empty gasoline cans, a soldier's kitbag floating, part of the landing gear of a German transport plane held up by a bloated balloon tire, a rubber raft on which a dead Nazi airman...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra will broadcast every Sunday afternoon the year around, beginning May 23. The network: the full CBS coast-to-coast hookup of more than 130 stations. The sponsor: U.S. Rubber. The contract will give the orchestra a chance to pare, or even write off, its $150,000 annual deficit, usually met by hard-squeezed private purses...
...Potential Pounds. The Wire Recorder weighs only 10 lb. (minus the amplifier and tubes) and, when electric pow er lines are not available, runs on 25 lb. of batteries in a pack sack. Its ten miles of wire are good for four hours. Unlike a wax or rubber recording, the wire can be used again & again, because it can be wiped clean merely by reversing its run through the instrument, which unscrambles the molecules...