Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figures were true, the United Nations will not have enough rubber to supply their essential needs through 1943 and will actually face a shortage of some 5,000 tons...
Enough . . . Enough. "But there is one unknown factor in this problem," said Mr. Roosevelt cheerfully. The unknown was rubber scrap. How much rubber scrap is there in the country? The President, with the help of all the citizens and the 400,000 filling-station operators, proposed to find...
...designated a two-week period (June 15-30) in which to get all the old rubber in "where it can stand up and be counted." For all rubber that citizens salvaged from cellars and attics, gas-station operators would pay 1? per pound. The Government will pay them back. Then, said Mr. Roosevelt, "We will make our plans. . . . One thing you can be sure of—we are going to see to it that there is enough rubber to build the planes to bomb Tokyo and Berlin-enough rubber to build the tanks to crush the enemy wherever we may find...
...Federal reckoning, many of which are essential in the U.S. economy. Tires on these cars had only 60% of their life left. By the end of 1944, experts figured, only 1,200,000 cars will be left on the road. By the end of 1945: none. To save existing rubber the U.S. would finally have to submit to nationwide rationing...
...cited the rubber shortage as "one little sample" of how Americans were going to have to learn to "take it and keep on taking...