Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubber Worker. In Clearwater, Fla., a passer of worthless checks, imprisoned, used a trusty as an errand boy, passed two more...
When the Red Cross asked for blood, 700 convicts volunteered, 144 already have donated. Men in the prison tailor shop cut material for Red Cross sewing units. Soon the convicts will begin to reclaim rubber-covered copper wire salvaged and brought back from Pearl Harbor. In a million-dollar, convict-built factory, 1,000 skiff-type commando assault boats will be made if San Quentin's bid is accepted...
...week's end the Mayor again felt the stings of ingratitude. With the best intentions in the world, he posed for a news picture showing him about to plunge a knife into a rubber dragon which Macy's department store once used for Thanksgiving Day parades and is now donating to the scrap pile. Some Manhattan ingrates suggested that this was not the first rubber dragon their Mayor had slain...
John Little McClellan, 46, Arkansas, a former Congressman who called himself a New Dealer "but no rubber stamp." Intense John McClellan tried to get into the Senate in 1938 by tackling the machine Hattie Caraway had built around Arkansas's U.S. Marshals, had better luck this year when the State's other Senator, John E. Miller, resigned to take a Federal judgeship...
...presented to the company on Nov. 18. One reason for the award: Lights, Inc. delivers on time. Besides lighting equipment (75% of its total) the company makes "stuffing tubes" (which hold cables on ships), bomb release pulleys, etc., and is planning to subcontract the manufacture of Butex, a synthetic rubber compound...