Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This time the Allies have only about 25,000,000 tons afloat, but the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available are in the hands of the enemy. So are the resources and shipping of Scandinavia, and, for practical purposes, of Spain" [TIME, June...
Explained the Guild: the new backline demonstrated beyond doubt that Miss Brooks was not wasting rubber on a girdle; every time she turned her back she showed her patriotism...
...centuries the Cortes was an advisory body, sometimes powerful, sometimes a rubber stamp for kings. The last one, which died in the draughty vaults of a Pyrenees castle on the eve of Franco's victory, was a republican legislature. The new one will be composed of members of the two directing bodies of the Falange, provincial capital mayors, captains-general of the army, academy presidents and other Franco sycophants. Its enactments will be subject to the Chief of State's approval...
...Future is Still Clouded. Mass production of a complicated chemical product split into many component parts can produce all kinds of unexpected bugs. Though at least theoretically, raw materials and equipment are not as hideously short as rubber itself, any holdup there could wreck the program all over again...
...Germans crossed the Don. On sunny days, Russian shells and bullets from the eastern bank and bombs from the sky raised bright geysers around the bodies of the dead. On a cloudy day, when the Stormoviks flew low at the pontoon bridges and rubber boats of the invaders, many a German trooper's last sight in life was the dappled carpet of rain on the river. Along the western bank, where bombs and shells clawed great gaps in the lines of trucks and tanks, Germans died by thousands, and hospital trains bore many more thousands to the rear...