Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gasoline the pressure tightened. In 16 Eastern States OPA cut the value of A cards 25% to save 20,000 bbl. of gas a day, in the rest of the U.S. ordered rationing to save rubber, beginning Dec. 1. And in many places the people fumed in rebellion...
...drafting of a great portion of the student body will place a new source of scrap before the authorities now conducting the College's war drive. The metal and rubber collected will be used in the making of guns, engine mounts, airplane de-icers, protective padding and other vital war products...
Returning across a nearby body of water their precious rubber boat capsized. Cried one: "Damn the generals, save the boat." Most of their clothing and $18,000 in gold were lost. But they saved all the important papers, and, shivering, half-naked, they crept through woodlands to a secret rendezvous with an Allied ship...
Engineer McGay's system is simple: 1) The rim (which should be drop center) is cleaned and smoothed; 2) the valve (preferably oversize) is fitted into the regular valve opening in the rim, secured with a lock nut and rubber washer; 3) holes and cracks are sealed with cold patches or vulcanized; 4) all irregularities are sanded smooth, especially on the beads; 5) the tire is mounted, then blown up rapidly and tapped at the same time to make sure that the beads seat themselves evenly; 6) tire and rim are immersed in water for the usual bubble test...
...Army nurses always carry 200 cc. (about 6½ oz.) of blood of the "universal" type in an ampule-named for its inventor, Dr. S. Seltsovsky of Kiev-provided with a sterilized rubber tube, needle and filter. Blood transfusions can thus be given to wounded soldiers even before the nurse shoulders and carries them, with their guns, off the battlefield...