Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were two main reasons for the playroom gloom: 1) U.S. toymakers are busy making some 500 different war items; 2) war work or not, with no metal and rubber, less wood and paper, they cannot keep up peacetime production. But the Toy Fair showed that U.S. playthings will certainly not be as dreary as the toys British moppets had to take last Christmas, when a toy tank, crudely modeled of wood, with beer-bottle caps, stuck on for gun turrets, sold for a pound...
Rigid Requirements. In Sacramento, the U.S. Employment Service got a request for six laborers who would fit the six pairs of size nine rubber boots which the prospective employer still...
...came, I went into a room and lay on what looked like a surgical couch. My clothes were loosened, such things as collar studs and tiepin removed. My temples were then scrubbed with ether soap. Two electrodes were placed on my temples, and were kept in place by a rubber band across my forehead. A gag was put in my mouth...
...Hood Rubber Co.'s series "How To Make Your Rubber Footwear Last Longer." Like many a British wartime advertisement, this one mixed humor with solid advice. A cartoon showed two armed guards toting a padlocked, ironbound chest into a house; the housewife was calling upstairs: "It's the men with your galoshes, dear...
Sometimes Lewis has got things done. On a recent western lecture tour, he hollered that ODT was making it difficult for farmers and truckers to get enough gasoline to do business on. He aired their grievances and ODT took corrective steps. His broadcasts last summer on synthetic rubber stirred Congress and were put into the Congressional Record. Lewis thereafter claimed virtually all the credit for straightening out the controversy. (He has a propensity for looking back on situations and observing: "I soon cleared that...