Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contend that there has been one really worth-while scandal in the whole war, and that is Pearl Harbor. The offenders therein will face the consequences in good time. Our lack of initiative, our bungling of the home front and our somewhat cheesy solidarity, our handling of the rubber situation, the negative quality of the Atlantic Charter, the mishandling of war information-all these are very minor bungles in a monstrously big job. No government on earth, not even Hitler's so-called model of chill efficiency, could do better, nor should better be expected...
...over-all picture of the job being done today. Our armed forces started under a bad handicap, and yet win spectacular, telling engagements. I can see no real failures here at home. There have been mistakes, but one by one they are corrected. We will not run out of rubber. We will not run out of steel, or aluminum, or anything that...
...Administration came to the point of putting the nation on meat rations. It made clear its intention of drafting an army so huge that most of the able-bodied men in the nation will be in uniform within a few months. Its final decision on the rubber problem was being rapidly drafted by the hands of Bernard Baruch. Its own internal pressures were slowly bringing nearer a reorganization of the War Production Board...
...transparent cover from a powder-puff box, a bit of wire net (from fly swatters), two handkerchiefs, elastic ribbon, adhesive tape, and (from the drugstore) a few ounces of activated coconut charcoal and soda lime. The principle behind the homemade mask is simple; the assembly is more difficult. The rubber cap is fitted snugly over the face and two holes are cut in it; one for the powder-puff cover (to look through), one for the tin-can respirator. The ends of the can are removed, replaced with the wire net. Inside the can go the chemicals (two parts activated...
...President each Friday. But the Cabinet does not make war. Attorney General Francis Biddle, the libertarian lawyer, gets close to the war only when his Justice Department prosecutes spies and saboteurs. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, once the moneybags of the war effort, had his wings clipped after the Rubber Scandal. Secretary of State Cordell Hull is still the good, grey man of international diplomacy, but the day of grey diplomacy has faded with Pearl Harbor. Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard is close to the war effort, with his responsibility for feeding the United Nations, but not quite...