Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Rubber Scandal, far from being solved, moved into an even dizzier confusion, a Wonderland where jabberwocky jive talk about buna, butyl and guayule was the only language spoken...
...publicize its own rubber drive, Philadelphia's KYW put a bouncing blonde cutie in a rubber bathing suit, sent her touring the town in a horse-drawn cart, made as if to salvage her suit. Result: 19,173 Ib. of rubber in twelve hours, and the war's most nonsensical publicity photograph...
...WOAI offered several prizes, one for the best collector's letter. The winning letter came from twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't make much on the rubber [247 lb.] after having to pay the hospital and the doctor but anyway we did help lick the Japs and Germans...
...that pleasure drivers would soon get tires-"without hampering the military effort in any way." Readers didn't even blink: it was only Cissy Patterson's Washington Times-Herald again. When Captain Joe Patterson's New York Daily News printed the same story, under the headline RUBBER SHORTAGE A MYTH, INDUSTRY WILL TELL NATION, the New York Post sent a Washington correspondent to Albert L. Viles, president of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, who denied the headline's story...
Though the Germans have established at least two bridgeheads across the Don in the Tsimlyanskaya area 125 miles east and slightly north of Rostov, late dispatches said, Soviet artillery has smashed a score of pontoon bridges there, as well as sinking several score rafts and rubber boats laden with thousands of enemy troops and equipment...