Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roads? Also postponed, although probably not for four months, is another urgent necessity: to conserve rubber by national gas rationing. Although rubber supplies necessary for the war are fast vanishing, three-quarters of the nation is still burning up rubber tires...
Chances are that, after the scrap-rubber drive, conducted on a patriotic no-profit basis, fails to yield enough rubber to fight the war, the Administration may try to override the people's reluctance...
...four men landed was a stretch of sand half-hidden by high grass and the low rolling dunes of Long Island's south shore, near Amagansett. They worked fast, dug a hole, gingerly buried a number of wooden boxes unloaded from their boat, finally buried the collapsible rubber boat itself, covered everything with sand. Then they headed swiftly for New York...
Trouble at Home. Besides, President Rios had more exclusively Chilean problems to think about. Victim of an acute war-born economic crisis, Chile suffers severe shortages in gasoline, tin plate, rubber, steel. Since 1941 the cost of living has gone up 39%. With no palliating wage increases, labor grows daily surlier...
...former years the Summer School sponsored weekly bus trips and drives to historic spots in the greater Boston area, but the gas and rubber rationing have curtailed this once pleasant pastime for newcomers to Cambridge, and College officials have delegated the Outing Club to entertain the outdoor element this summer...