Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dogged Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War, blew the bugle for battle with this charge: the superduper, overriding priority won by "Bull Bill" Jeffers four months ago to bull through his rubber program had raised unholy hob with the 100-octane gasoline pro gram. Training planes have been grounded in this country, said Mr. Patterson, thus delaying the day when swarms of bombers will finally smash the Axis...
Quickly Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who had been honing up his snickersnee, slashed away, too : the rubber program was "a sock in the jaw for the 100-octane program, has already cost us 7,000,000 barrels that are gone forever...
...Preliminary Bout. The answering roar of "Bull Bill" could be heard by 130,000,000 rubber-conscious Americans, as he in tended it should. In a warm-up for Patter son, Jeffers ripped a horn into OWI's Elmer Davis for gloomily predicting that the nation was too optimistic about rub ber. Jeffers harshly said that Davis didn't know what he was talking about, stuck to his previous announcement: civilians would be purchasing synthetic tires early next year. Then he rumbled about Washingtonians "sitting around desks and is suing orders and grousing about someone else taking something...
...showdown, "Judge" Patterson is confident that he can prove the rubber program out of balance, that civilians are being "coddled" with the promise of tires at the expense of fighting men, that Jeffers has grabbed so many materials the rubber program can now be safely cut back...
...reason, as explained by Ball Manufacturer A. G. Spalding & Bros.: The rubber cement used in the 1943 models is reprocessed rubber. It had unexpectedly hardened and the result was a dead ball. Spalding promised better results with a new cement...