Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON-Because of the shortage of rubber, defense transportation director Joseph B. Eastman today asked all state and county fairs to suspend operations of the duration. Although his request was not an order, he put it in such a way that refusal would be difficult...
...Neath a ton of sugar, by a rubber tree...
...Boat. While on reconnaissance patrol a few weeks before, they said, 200 miles off the coast of England, they were attacked by six German fighters. After shooting down two Germans, their plane, radio dead, was forced into the sea. They spent the next 16 days on a rubber life raft, stretching out five days' emergency rations by mixing canned milk and water together. Finally they saw a vessel, a U.S. ship which was part of a convoy. The boy with the empty pipe said he jerked a thumb at the boat's crew, asked ''Ride, buddy...
Nobody knows yet exactly what gas rationing and the rubber shortage are going to do to churches and churchgoers. Nearly everybody agrees that these short ages have already caused changes in U.S. churchgoing habits, are due to cause more and bigger changes in the near future. Hardest hit are the rural areas, where countryfolk often have to drive miles to get to church. In cities, however, gas rationing is proving a blessing in disguise: more people, unable to use their cars, are now going to church for diversion. Some other changes noted by churchmen...
...important to get the steel or more important to hold down the scrap dealers' profits. If by any chance an added $1 a ton would solve the scrap shortage, then an $80-billion war effort might be held up to save $25 millions, just as a billion-dollar rubber shortage is being made worse to keep the profit motive out of rubber scrap collection...