Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch had completed his investigation of the rubber scandal; at week's end he sat down to write a short, terse summary of the facts. Official Washington heard that he would report a welter of confusion and mismanagement in early handling of the shortage. He might be persuaded to soft-pedal all that, but he would state flatly that the situation is now so critical that all pleasure driving should be eliminated and automobiles used only for essential business. He and his brainy colleagues, James Bryant Conant and Karl Taylor Compton, had also looked...
...That a rubber tsar be appointed to carry out the program, serve as final authority on all problems, direct rationing and conservation...
...stop completely on or before Nov. 1. This jolting news hit front pages all over the country last week when prim, precise WPB Alcohol Expert Matthew MacNamara revealed that U.S. distillers would be 100% converted to war alcohol within two months. The U.S. needs alcohol for its huge synthetic-rubber program, its booming smokeless powder plants, its busy plastics and chemical factories...
...commercial alcohol next year, four times any pre-war year. Most of this huge increase will be met by the liquor makers, who have an estimated capacity of 435,000,000 gallons annually. If things go as planned, the liquor industry will supply the newly developed war alcohol market (rubber and powder) and regular alcohol producers will handle the ordinary market (plastics, lacquers, chemicals, anti-freeze...
Humphrey Bogart is his usual hard-as-nails self, slapping people around, making strange with his lips, driving automobiles without any consideration for gas or rubber, and in the end dying the death that the Hays Office says all murderers, regardless of race or creed, must die. In spite of the fact that you can tell more or less what's going to happen after the first few minutes, you'll probably be sitting on the edge of your seat till it does happen. No matter how many times you've seen them before, jail breaks and murders and holdups...