Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had time, its ten members might have toasted their accomplishments all night. They had served as watchdog, spotlight, conscience and spark plug to the economic war-behind-the-lines. They had prodded Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones into building synthetic-rubber plants, bludgeoned the President into killing off doddering old SPAB and setting...
They had called the turn on raw-materials shortages, had laid down the facts of the rubber famine four months before the famed Baruch report. One single investigation, of graft and waste in Army camp building, had saved the U.S. $250,000,000 (according to the Army's own Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell). Their total savings ran into billions, partly because of what their agents had ferreted out in the sprawling war program, partly because their hooting curiosity was a great deterrent to waste...
Last night's contest was a thriller from the word go. The Puritans looked surprisingly strong, despite their diminished ranks, and continually carried the play to the Bellboys, making their goalie, Bill MacPherson, move quickly to keep the rubber out of the cage...
...silk and nylon. The Civil Air Patrol drops food, serum and other emergency supplies with tough, crepe-paper chutes made by Dennison Manufacturing Co. > Recent entrant in the unending race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough...
...amendments* applied to both rubber and duplicate bridge. There were two scoring changes: a 50-point bonus for making any doubled or redoubled contract, whether vulnerable or not; a 50-point bonus for having a part score in an unfinished game of an unfinished rubber. Two rules were changed. Henceforth, when the wrong opponent leads against him, a declarer has a choice of calling or forbidding the lead of any suit he wishes. For a revoke, the penalty is still two tricks, but hereafter there is no additional penalty when the same player revokes a second time in the same...