Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people cheered last September when Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch's Special Rubber Inquiry Committee came up with proposals which sounded as if they would solve the rubber problem to the eventual satisfaction of the civilian and military alike. They sang hosannas when Union Pacific's tough William M. Jeffers was put in charge of translating that program into action. Bill Jeffers made the Baruch report his bible, dared one and all to cross his path. But last week it looked as if the Government had made up its mind that in demanding all the synthetic rubber...
Point at issue was an anguished complaint from the Army and Navy that the building of synthetic rubber factories was eating up too many critical component parts also needed in the construction of Navy escort vessels and the manufacture of high-octane gas. They demanded a cut in the rubber program down to 55% of the 1943 goal. Said one War Department official: "If the . . . program is not held at a true 55%, we will be marvelously equipped to fight a war in the Mississippi Valley...
...program. But the program, said the armed services, had already been outdated by the facts of war; and the Battle of the Atlantic was far from won. The bitter dispute finally went to Economic Czar James F. Byrnes for settlement. Washington heard that Jimmy Byrnes was prepared to cut rubber production; how much, no one knew. But since the fight cut to the heart of United Nations strategy, it seemed that this was a time when the Army and Navy should have their...
...Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into the laboratory and God tells me what...
Walter Pidgeon plays the short-tempered, sex-proof overseer of an African rubber plantation, whose greatest problems are monotonous isolation and attempts to keep an assistant at the jungle outpost for longer than six months. The film begins with the arrival of a new assistant (Richard Carlson), whose many good intentions are soon destroyed by the dry rot and the charms of scheming Tondelayo (Lamarr). As soon as Carlson starts laying in "many silks and bangles" for the gold digging Tondelayo his days are numbered, but before he returns to civilization with a good case of malaria he manages...