Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same week that Donald Nelson helped President Roosevelt pick a real No. 1 man of U.S. industry-Union Pacific's able president, William Martin Jeffers-for rubber tsar (see p. 77), he went on to pick three other men out of the top drawer...
...appointments amount to the installation of a new top management in WPB. To neat, hardboiled, balding Ferd Eberstadt, who has done a top-flight job of handling military schedules and priorities on the Munitions Board, falls the key job of setting WPB's sights on all production except rubber. To factory-wise Charlie Wilson falls the job of meeting the goals that Eberstadt sets. And to Steelman Batcheller falls the particular responsibility of meeting the key goal, steel production...
...rubber tsar, veteran trainman William Martin Jeffers, 66-year-old president of Union Pacific...
Akron-world's largest rubber manufacturing center and the very core of the U.S. war effort-last week produced at 15% below capacity despite a five-year backlog of munitions orders. Instead of the patriotic hustle & bustle which throbs in most defense-plant towns, Akron was a gigantic time bomb, relentlessly, awesomely ticking. Over the place hung a pall of suspicion, bitterness, hatred. Management and labor wrangled, sparred and fought. Root of the trouble is the six-hour day started by management during the depression, now grimly held by the union as a labor "asset...
...Stuff. Trouble in Akron is nothing new. In 1902 the A.F. of L. started organizing, finally bashed its head against a united front of the manufacturers. Then came a long series of organizing drives, unrest, strikes, riots. In 1936 labor won its first big victory when the upstart United Rubber Workers (C.I.O.) forced giant Goodyear Tire & Rubber to rehire 70 discharged workers. The U.R.W. signed members in wholesale lots, now has practically all of Akron's 60,000 rubber workers. Many of them are husky, fearless men from the hills of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia with a background...