Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italian architects, stonemasons and carpenters built office buildings, theaters and homes in Addis Ababa. Electrical engineers installed power plants. But Ethiopia is far from modernized. It lacks tractors, plows, harrows to till the rich valleys and lowlands. It lacks trucks to haul wheat, coffee, rubber, cotton into Addis Ababa, to be shipped thence by rail to Djibouti harbor on the Gulf of Aden...
...main event on the program was the donning of a rubber Willkie mask by one of the performers, followed by the throwing out of the first ball in the Winthrop House extra-softball season in the traditional F.D.R. manner. The two men concluded the performance by jumping to the ground; training for the parachute troops no doubt...
When Nelson testified that he had granted Jeffers the priority because rubber production was more important than anything else last December, his statement went almost unheard...
...settling the high-octane-rubber dispute went, the Truman Committee had labored in vain. But it looked as if they might have settled Don Nelson's hash...
...Plastic tubing, announced by Goodyear, is ready to replace rubber tubing now prioritied to such users as breweries and creameries. As flexible as rubber, the new tubing has about the same strength and resistance to high & low temperatures, can be transparent, opaque or colored...