Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foreign-Born. In the smelly pork-trimming room of Omaha's Armour plant, large, muscular women carve the slaughtered pigs with glistening ten-inch knives. They wear white uniforms, rubber aprons, and galoshes. Many are European-born, many have sons in the fighting forces. The plant is on a 24-hour basis, supplying meat to the United Nations' armies. When the war news is bad, they sometimes slash at the pigs as if they had Hitler himself in their grasp. Then production soars...
...eyed, white-scutted fawn of Felix Salten's somewhat candied forest idyl. Disney animates Bambi from birth to buck. He is an appealing, wonderfully articulated little deer, whose progressive discoveries of rain, snow, ice, the seasons, man, love, death, etc. make a neatly antlered allegory. Bambi's rubber-jointed, slack-limbed, coltish first steps in the art of walking are, even for Disney, inspired animation. The undying affection bestowed on him by a young skunk, whom Bambi inadvertently names Flower, is grade-A Disney. His wide-eyed encounter with an old mole who pops up just to pass...
Deferment has been granted to a majority of the graduates, in particular to those who are doing work on synthetics, explosives, or gasoline--investigations especially vital to the war effort. Munitions and explosives take up a large number of men, while the rubber situation has also created an acute shortage of specialists. Plastics and synthetic fiber, much developed during the last decade, are assuming more and more importance in the aeroplane industry...
Inhabitants of the Houses, Dudley, and Wigglesworth will be contacted by entry representatives of the War Service Committee Wednesday and Thursday for any rubber, metal, old clothes and cloth, used phonograph records, or musical instruments which they would like to contribute to Harvard's scrap drive. After the drive entry representatives will continue to relieve students of any scrap they may have, but paper and tin cans are not wanted at present...
...Council resolution read: "The Harvard Student Council feels that with the present desperate shortage of rubber, and of transportation facilities for gasoline, those Harvard students who are still keeping automobiles for recreation and amusement are directly detracting from the war effort, and strongly urges them to store these automobiles for the duration...