Word: rubbers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Administered the final, official rebuke to opponents of nationwide gasoline rationing by ordering Rubber Czar William Jeffers and OPAdministrator Leon Henderson to start rationing this week as planned...
...Near Detroit the machinery of Henry Ford's $5,600,000 "world's most advanced tire factory" is being dismantled for shipment to Russia. An integral part of River Rouge, it was designed on a streamlined rubber-freighter-to-finished-Lizzie basis five years ago. Its sale is a happy one for all concerned: the U.S.S.R. will gain a steady supply of more than 1,000,000 tires a year; the U.S. Government will fulfill a year-old promise to deliver such a plant to Russia, and Henry Ford will get Lend-Lease cash for a peacetime plant...
Yesterday, after months of quibbling and needless delay, the gaso-line-rubber conservation program went into effect throughout the nation. Yet, in spite of the Bausch report, and statements by President Roosevelt and Rubber Administrator Jeffers as to the dire necessity of this measure, many Oklahomans and 166,000 out of 546,000 Detroit car owners refused to register. Mr. Jeffers warned "There is a good deal of organized opposition in various quarters--the funds for which are being furnished by people who should know better. I don't question their motive. They just don't understand...
Every room in the University is a veritable storehouse of desperately needed rubber and scrap metal. That old tin wastebasket and the miniature rubber tire surrounding the ash-tray could certainly be put to better use in a jeep or Flying Fortress. Cloth scrap, especially silk, is also needed, and those old frayed shirts and ties will help. Since representatives have been appointed in every entry to take care of the donations, no great pains have to be taken to get rid of your scrap. If every student contributes just one pound of scrap, the country will be enriched...
...Cultivation of rubber-yielding plants has been set up in the Ukraine to supplement synthetic-rubber production...