Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard park bench in Washington's Lafayette Square, three of the nation's most distinguished citizens held a momentous conference on the Rubber Scandal last week. The sun gleamed dully on the scabrous green of the old Andrew Jackson hobbyhorse statue. Serious, bespectacled James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, shed his coat. So did aggressive, square-jawed Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But Elder Statesman Bernard Mannes Baruch-to whom the bench is a favorite office (TIME, May 12, 1941)-kept on his light summer jacket...
Less Talking, More Facts. Day before, in a stroke which inspired confidence in & out of Washington, Franklin Roosevelt had made these three men his Rubber Committee. Their chairman: Baruch. Their job: to probe all synthetic rubber possibilities, weigh the whole question in relation to war needs and the supply of raw materials, report back quickly to the President. To give them a clear hand, President Roosevelt had vetoed a bill-shoved through Congress by the farm bloc -which would have set up an independent agency to make synthetic rubber from agricultural and forest products...
...more important factor towards victory in this war than in the last, since it is now used to produce synthetic rubber and explosives as well as fuel for planes, tanks, and ships, according to Kirtley F. Mather, director of the Summer School and professor of Geology in a current events lecture yesterday afternoon at the New Lecture Hall on "Oil and the Flow...
...chemical intricacies of the rubber situation will present little obstale to President Conant, who, prior to his elevation to the presidency of the University, was well known in the chemical world for his work on chlorophyll and plant chemistry, and who during the last war discovered a quicker method of producing Lewisite gas. Assisting President Conant in his duties in Washington will be his private secretary, A. Calvert Smith...
...United States and its allies need oil, net only for fuel but also for producing synthetic rubber and explosives, both of which are most important in wartime...