Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nipples. Babies must still be fed. WPB decided to allow some of its rubber hoard to be used for nipples. But smaller nipples...
There were thousands of them-leggy, strapping, bronzed fellows. They marched through Northern Ireland's streets and lanes with silent, rubber-heeled tread that still seems impressively American to hard-heeled Britons. They rumbled through towns and across fields in rubber-treaded tanks; for the first time Britons at home saw the U.S. Armored Force in action...
...desperate rubber shortage forced Borden's, Sheffield and other big distributors to agree on a plan for pooling milk routes in the New York City area. Deliveries will be cut to every other...
This week many an afternoon newspaper prepared to cut to one or two editions. The purpose was not to save paper, but to save the rubber on delivery trucks. To papermen it was just one more unhappy step away from a paper shortage. Wailed a Glens Falls, N.Y. paperman: "There is only one thing we lack-sufficient orders...
...real threat to the paper industry, but it is the same threat that darkens the future of all U.S. civilian industry: shortages in transportation, metals and manpower. Most ominous single paper statistic: at some point or other in its progress toward paper, 80% of all U.S. pulpwood travels on rubber. In the South, trucking is especially strategic, since Southern pine cannot be floated, and, once cut, deteriorates fast...