Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officials in Washington confessed that the U.S. performance had been poor. In recent months, with Stalingrad in the balance, shipments had been less than they were last spring. Russia's rubber supply was critically low and promised U.S. action was long overdue. Russia had cried for locomotives. She got only part of the number she asked for, and those were not the kind she wanted...
...automobiles ride the once busy streets of Rio and Sao Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon River to Manaos are stopped: the woodcutters have slipped into the jungles to gather rubber for better pay. In Andean-wrinkled Chile and Peru where railroads are few, highway routes are all-important, few trucks have gasoline to run and even they are being laid up as tires wear...
...being as complacent about oil today as it was over aluminum, rubber and steel before Pearl Harbor...
...railroads are doing even better. Far-flung Northern Pacific last week reported eight months' profits at $5,787,000 against $3,227,000 last year; up-&-coming Alton Railroad cleared $1,752,000 v. $80,000; giant Union Pacific (whose up-from-the-tracks boss is now U.S. rubber tsar) bounced profits 133% to $25,106,000; once-busted Erie netted a record-smashing $9,124,000 against $5,292,000 last year...
...never forgot her. A sturdy, schoolmarmish spinster, she wore high leather boots, a cowgirl skirt, flat-crowned sombrero, and a beaded buckskin coat which hung to her knees. This getup was discarded in her later years in favor of ill-fitting riding breeches, shirt and high boots. She carried rubber hip boots in case of rain...