Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers on the Government guayule rubber project at Indio, only 100 pounds of meat a week could be had: "The labor turnover is terrific because the men can't get enough to eat." > Said Packer Albert Luer Jr.: Southern Californians, under the current system, will be lucky to get 24 ounces of meat each per week...
When the Japanese took Singapore and the Dutch East Indies they captured 90% of the world's supply of crude rubber. Americans felt the pinch in tire and gasoline rationing; the U.S. Army needed all the rubber that could be had and more besides, which was to be produced in many new synthetic-rubber plants. Malaya as a rubber source was written...
...Malayan rubber was not lost to the U.S. Last week it was learned that a small trickle has begun to come to U.S. ports once more-via Japan and Russia. Tokyo, saddled with a mountainous surplus, sells it to the Soviet Union; Russia again trades it for U.S. war goods which she needs to fight Japan's allies in Europe. Some day Malayan rubber from Japan might roll again down Singapore's wide streets under the U.S. flag. Meanwhile, the world had another example of a paradox of international war and commerce: how to trade, at second hand...
Nudge. In Brazil's Amazon Valley, rubber gatherers got priorities on a new supply of 1,500,000 fish hooks, result of their telegram to U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery: "No fish hooks, no fish; no fish, no eat; no eat, no rubber...
Tribute was paid in a full page article of this week's issue of Look Magazine to President Conant. Stressing Conant's unpublicized contributions to the war effort from his chairman's position on the National Defense Research Committee, and his work on the Bavuch rubber commission, the magazine unstintingly praised his academic and military work...