Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crisis will mount steadily to a peak next spring; 3) currently nothing effective is being done about it. The housewife thought it was shameful-and it was. Sober-sided Paul Willis, head of the Grocery Manufacturers of America Inc., said, without exaggeration: "A scandal far greater than the rubber situation looms in the near future. Unless immediate steps are taken to coordinate this country's system of food production and distribution, a major food shortage is a certainty...
Army & Navy patrol planes soared over the blue waters, looking for the plane's wreckage and, more hopefully, for yellow rubber life rafts which might be carrying Rickenbacker, his aides and crew. But in Honolulu, Army GHQ was gloomy...
...Rubber dolls are no more. Their stuffed substitutes will have fewer elastic joints, movable eyes, mamma voices, eating and diaper-wetting apparatuses. Doll clothing, always in the latest style, features narrow skirts, narrow belts, simple lines, in line with WPB directives for adult clothing...
Sitting in a cool grove of rubber trees, the Australians ravenously ate meat loaf with mashed potatoes, peach shortcake, bread and tea. Only then, as the tropic dusk came swiftly, did one Australian speak. "Give me a few days," he said, "and I'll be ready for another go at them...
Author of this plan was Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. President Conant and a fellow member of the three-man committee that had cleared up the rubber mess, M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, joined in warning the nation that it could no longer delay clearing up its college manpower mess. Taking issue with Army men who had declared that all students were destined for the armed forces, they pointed to the urgent need for experts in war industry. Said President Compton: "My own experience with the scientific program of the Government and the technical problems...