Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he pleaded with civilians to sacrifice more, complain less. "The cry and objection to being rationed on rubber and gasoline seem so insignificant, so ridiculous, when we see what the boys at the front have got. ... If people only knew that the saving of one old rubber tire makes it possible to produce one of those rafts, which might be responsible, as it has been in our case, for saving seven men . . . they might not worry whether they have their automobiles on weekends...
...July 1941, a U-boat took Leibbrandt to a point off desolate Namaqualand, South Africa. With $10,000 and radio equipment he rowed ashore in a rubber dinghy. For three days he walked across the hot plains, finally got a lift to Cape Town. Then he headed for the interior...
...Brazilians from drought-stricken areas were seeking a new world last week. Like the old pioneers of North America, they were the first of a great army marching westward to open an untouched land. The treasure they were seeking was one of World War II's most precious-rubber...
...search for rubber was the immediate stimulus of Brazil's great migration, but there was more behind it. The ultimate goal was to open and develop Brazil's western territories for future generations, possibly for thousands of impoverished emigrants from Europe when the war is over. The men and women threading their way up the river by boat, by pack mule, and afoot had pioneers' jobs: to lay the foundations for the development of rubber plantations, to build airports and highways to link the reclaimed land with...
...long-range plan for the development of Brazil's Far West was being worked out jointly by the Brazilian Government, U.S. Rubber Reserve Co. and Nelson Rockefeller's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. To speed the rubber output, broad-shouldered, lion-faced Joâo Alberto Lins de Barros was recruiting 78,000 workers to go up the Amazon trail to the rubber grounds. Joâo Alberto knew that country: back in the '20s he had marched a column of revolutionists against Dictator Arthur da Silva Bernardes through nearly 950 miles of jungle...