Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This belief was dead wrong. Nobody has yet made a decent tire without rubber. The United Nations are so desperate for rubber that gasoline rationing will soon be extended everywhere in the U.S., just to keep the present tires from wearing out. Even the treasure trove of scrap rubber which has been uncovered but uncollected in the U.S. is entirely needed for war uses. There is no chance that any civilian will be able to buy a new tire until 1944-at the soonest. Positively...
...nationals had been quietly moving into O'Brien's Camp, a resort on .the Hudson just above New York's 125th Street Ferry. Last week the FBI did some infiltration of its own. Trapped were an undisclosed number of Germans. Seized by the FBI: 30 collapsible rubber boats of the type used by the German Army, maps of inland waterways, radios, cameras, field glasses, guns, 450 rounds of ammunition. The spy-suspects were whisked to an undisclosed jail...
...Westerners are so unpatriotic as to waste rubber and gas motoring to Yellowstone to feed the bears. Western dude ranches and Eastern roadside inns are whistling in the dark. The long stays, the long trips-to Mexico and Canada, for instance-take more time than most U.S. people have in 1942. Many of the 1,095,000 schoolteachers who did much of the nation's summer traveling have been asked to stay at home and take courses in civilian defense. U.S. businessmen are either too busy or too broke...
...next day Lewis ended his performance, declared that the Mine Workers' office of vice president was vacant. The executive board rubber-stamped the action, accepted Lewis' nomination of tough, veteran mine organizer John O'Leary to Murray...
...United Nations commanded the seven seas. The British strategy had been to blockade Europe until Hitler ran out of oil. Six months later the United Nations have largely lost control of the Mediterranean, the eastern part of the Indian Ocean, a good part of the Pacific (the part where rubber came from). They have even had to permit the enemy to roam the Atlantic coastal waters of the continental U.S. They face the grim possibility that the Near East may fall to the Germans and India to the Japs-a juncture which would end any blockade for good...