Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is going on there? Yesterday, my July 13 issue of TIME arrived. Today, as I read it, it makes me sick and bitter, and fills my mind with unanswerable questions. The drive for scrap rubber is a "disappointing failure"; the sale of war bonds is $200,000,000 per month below Government expectations; aggressive war must wait until after the November elections; steel laborers seek a dollar-a-day increase in wages...
What kind of a game is this that is being played in those United States? Is that our invincible, our proud country ? While all over the world men are being shot to pieces, other men-the steel, the aluminum, the textile, the rubber workers-are quibbling about dollars, and Washington is still activated by politicians...
Nationwide rationing was announced promptly last week by the nation's new Rubber Tsar, William M. Jeffers. It will begin as soon as Washington can distribute the paraphernalia: 60,000,000 new application blanks and coupon books, 91,000,000 gummed sheets for filling stations to keep coupons on, 100,000,000 copies of auditing forms, regulations and instructions...
Other changes that rubber conservation will bring to the U.S. scene...
...lessened, President James Bryant Conant will be able to spend more time at the University this winter than he has during the past several months, he revealed yesterday. From now on he plans to divide his time between the two jobs, whereas this past summer his work on the rubber committee kept him from Cambridge except for a few visits...