Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Force Transport Command carried the President and his party 2,000 miles to Liberia, only republic in Africa, founded in 1822 as a colony for freed U.S. slaves. There Franklin Roosevelt lunched with chocolate-hued President Edwin James Barclay, toured part of the million-acre Firestone rubber plantation, rode with his Liberian confrere in a jeep to review U.S. Negro troops...
Standard's vast and drafty old boiler shop at Bayway, N.J. Even as Standard's new president, Ralph W. Gallagher, spoke, the six-million-dollar "cat cracker" was running full blast, spewing forth a censored quantity of the basic ingredients for high-octane gasoline, TNT and synthetic rubber...
...terrific odds. Main reason for the lag in escort ships has been a series of Washington miscalculations. First, the Navy underestimated the real job. Then there was a drive for landing barges. The merchant shipping program itself has put enormous strain on all ship suppliers. More recently, the synthetic rubber program and high-octane gasoline program collided with the escort program for parts...
Bomb bursts and gun cracks are not the only war noises that shatter or dull the mechanism of the human ear (TIME, Nov. 2). The racket and roar of heavy machinery is also a menace. To quell such clamor, some workers use plugs of cotton, rags, rubber, wax. These are not always sanitary, are sometimes dangerous...
...show their playing merits. When they got the chance, the Gold Dust Twins acquitted themselves very well, but after the first hand, which Jacoby played for six no trump, the result was a foregone conclusion. This hand, incidentally, was perhaps the most spectacular played all evening. The three-rubber total was 2220 points for the Navy team...