Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are odd plants unimportant in acreage but vital in the war : quick-growing Russian dandelions for rubber, cattails and milkweed to be used as filler in life preservers, henbane used as a sedative...
...small, very white room. When his eyes got used to the glare from the gleaming walls, Vag saw what he knew he should have expected, but hadn't. He counted them, five women lying on their backs on what looked like operating tables. He gaped at the black, serpentine rubber pipes that seemed to have risen out of small bottles and attached themselves to the women's arms. He watched intently as the red stuff seeped into the bottles...
Background for Rubber...
...Time said: "Modern war is mechanized. It rolls on rubber and is driven by oil. The U.S. will have to bid for rubber against desperate belligerents. Driving an automobile may become a luxury . . the U.S. may turn to substitutes. ... To create them may well require several billion dollars...
When Farish died he left behind him a task that in its scope and importance makes the position of all but the very top Washington politicos look like small change. A big war producer (including synthetic rubber) at home; in the thick of war itself abroad and on the high seas where it commands the largest private fleet in the world; deep in Good Neighbor policy, especially in Venezuela; snapped at by Thurman Arnold for its former connections with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie-Standard Oil is the most far-flung industrial empire U.S. enterprise ever put together...