Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt's conscience hurt her: she told newspaper women last month at a press conference that she was ashamed to find herself going to a private lunch in a White House car, thus wasting gas and rubber. In My Day she called attention to her sins of travel, ascribed them to forgetfulness, promised in the future to use air routes, Government automobiles and Pullmans only when traveling as the President's wife on official wartime business. She said: "I'm not at all sure any speech I make is a contribution, or that it would make...
...Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement: snafu.* Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu. For months the people and their leaders had pussyfooted around the twin horrors. There were orders and counter-orders. All were different. The people, numb with bewilderment, choked with wrath, gave...
Perplexed and agitated, people simply did not yet believe that lack of rubber made nationwide gas rationing a necessity. WPBoss Donald Nelson told them so for the umpteenth time. But up rose Oilman Alfred M. Landon to say: "It is not yet definite whether it is rubber or gasoline the Administration is trying to save...
...President's Lap. Amid the Babel of statements, the fine frenzy, Franklin Roosevelt, finally sniffing a Congressional revolt, summoned eleven rationing bigwigs to the White House. After listening, instead of taking a clear-cut stand, he took an easier road, indicated approval of a drive for rubber scrap. Probable "action": a Presidential fireside chat...
...muscles as well as his own. So successful was the Boy Scout paper-salvage effort alone (300,000,000 lb.) that WPB had to beg them last week to call a halt to their "magnificent job." The Government asked them to pick up something else for a while-rubber, for instance...