Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Third is getting recognition for agriculture as a wartime industry-in terms of more rubber, more money, gasoline, manpower, transportation...
...Boys, Toys Medals, honorary degrees, tributes on parchment are good toys for adults, but a boy wants something on wheels. Thus, the model Hurricane fighter (with rubber tires) which the R.A.F. gave Iraq's seven-year-old King Feisal last year was just right. En route to Feisal last week was another device, a belated Christmas present: a three-foot-long General Grant tank with a swiveling turret. It had wheels in stead of treads, but the chains were gold...
...Suite 354, under the agile direction of George S. Kaufman, troop susceptible generals, admirals and rubber czars, footsore strangers in search of a bed, snooty wives in search of their husbands, harassed hotel managers in quest of a settlement, marines, FBI men, portly women judges and a bayoneted lady sniper from the Soviet Embassy. Every time one of the hostesses heads for the altar, yet another face appears with bad news. But the three girls snag their prey at last, and Washington subsides into routine pandemonium...
Some time next week the first synthetic-rubber plant in Rubber Czar William Jeffers' 1,000,000-ton program will actually start turning out butadiene-the strategic chemical that forms the basis of Buna-S tire rubber. The plant: Union Carbide & Carbon's 80,000-ton unit at Institute, W. Va., which will make rubber from grain alcohol...
...announcing this good news last week Mr. Jeffers also made clear that it was nothing to brag about. The synthetic-rubber program, he admitted, is about 30 days behind schedule because both aviation gasoline and naval escort vessel production have stood ahead of it in the lineup for vital instruments, rectifiers, forgings, etc. And the U.S. cannot afford the loss of those 30 days with its military rubber supplies dwindling...