Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who with six others was miraculously plucked from tiny rubber rafts in the middle of the South Pacific (TIME, Nov. 23). In War Secretary Stimson's conference room last week Captain Eddie told a group of newsmen his moving story of 24 torturing days adrift...
Premier General Hideki Tojo, on the anniversary of the Italian-German declarations of war upon the U.S., boasted that rubber, tin and other resources captured in the South Pacific were being used effectively to prosecute the war. "I think it a pleasure," said he, "that we can contribute these resources to Germany and Italy...
Tojo's implication that such raw materials were reaching Nazi Europe in quantity had a kernel of truth despite the strain on Japanese shipping (see below). The first considerable Japanese shipment, mostly rubber, reached Germany last summer. Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare believes the cargo was sailed from Indo-China to West Africa and transferred to small coastal craft; by night these vessels ran the blockade to French Mediterranean ports...
...ersatz materials are often better than the products they replace. Samples exhibited at Chicago's National Chemical Exposition: an Army raincoat that weighs 1½ Ib. less than the old model, saves 1¾ Ib. of rubber; plastic buttons for uniforms; synthetic bristles, tetered like natural hog hairs, for paintbrushes...
White Cargo (M.G.M.) is the second screen version of one of the worst and most successful plays of the '205. Starchy, ambitious young Langford (Richard Carlson) goes out to the Congo, around 1910, to help run a rubber plantation. As he disembarks from the Congo Queen his unstarched predecessor is carried aboard, toes turned up, Britain-bound. Says young Langford: "Blahsted hot today." His new boss Witzel (Walter Pidgeon) moves off, moaning "I was waiting for that phrase." Witzel gives Langford the advice needed to keep Empire whole and hale: "Never let the [native] men see you are afraid...