Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional outlook. He is against New Deal bureaucracy and bureaucrats, and he says that there is no one in the capital of whom he is afraid. Since Pearl Harbor, he has made successive crusades ("a series of little oomphs") on such obvious issues as the sugar situation, synthetic rubber, gasoline rationing...
...dead, but the monster lives on forever and only a little warmth is needed to bring him out of an ice-cake coma. Lon Chaney does the honors to this former Kario: monopoly but no one could ever recognize a person under that mound of greasepaint and sponge-rubber anyway. Bela Lugosi as the wolfman who finds warm blood and moonshine a most stimulating combination, grows progressively more and more, and less and less hirstute as the moons wax and wane...
...airtight defense when the other team is out in front, so Johnny Chase is planning to trip up Murray Murdoch's masterminding by getting out in front and forcing the Elis to take the initiative. The championship of the Big Three will definitely be decided in the rubber game in the Boston Garden at 8:15 o'clock tonight...
Lettuce-growing, ballyhoo-loving Salinas, Calif, was bursting with civic pride last week: homegrown, natural rubber in small but commercial quantities was bouncing from its Government-owned guayule-processing mill. Pounding, chopping and sloshing away night & day at mounds of tough, dry guayule shrubs harvested and baled in the fields near by, the little mill was turning out six tons of 100%-California rubber every 24 hours...
...that time the synthetic rubber program should also be going full blast. That will make guayule production look like peanuts. But unless synthetic tire technology improves enormously between now and next year, every pound of guayule will still be badly needed, because it still takes some natural rubber to make a satisfactory heavy-duty tire. Considering that the Nazis, with 25 years of synthetic rubber experimentation behind them, still mix crude with synthetic rubber, Salinas has good cause to feel safe and strategic-at least for the duration...