Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every floor had its own tinfoil collection depot-we've had our own rubber and scrap metal reclamation day-almost a hundred of us have graduated from the First Aid classes we held five nights a week in our reception room-and the Treasury Department gave us its Certificate of Merit for the number of employees who signed up to buy bonds regularly in our own War Bond Drive...
...becomes synthetic rubber...
Herman managed to stuff into the rubber suit which he was wearing a 200,000-word manuscript about his life at sea, three cartons of cigarets and a box of 5? cigars. A small British vessel which picked up Herman and his mates was already crowded with U.S., Dutch, Norwegian and Russian survivors. Some of the Russian sailors were women; they valiantly tried to cheer...
...Army engineers, interrupted by enemy fire, had labored to lay rubber pontoons, then wood crosspieces, finally steel tracks just wide enough for the 28-ton General Grants. At dusk the light tanks had crept out of the woods and skipped across the oily Cumberland River on the new pontoon bridge. When the mediums came down to cross, puncturing the dark with their exhaust flashes and red signal lights, the shore was lighted for safety's sake, making a 200-yard circle of yellow dust-fog through which turrets poked, each with its pygmy...
...rubber scarce for padding a tank? Try felt or fabric...