Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jesse Jones preaching business as usual and letting us in for a serious rubber shortage; Senator Walsh asking that our navy be called back to defend continental America; Churchill withholding Indian independence in the face of a desperate threat to Britain's eastern empire: these are only symptoms of an attitude that is costing us lives now, and may cost us victory later. It is an attitude that contrasts strangely with the willingness of the Russians to destroy the Dniepropetrousk Dam, the greatest achievement of their nation, because they could look forward to building a better dam when...
There is no lack of shortages. We lack pig iron and scrap iron, as a result of our former Far Eastern appeasement policy. We lack metallurgical coke except in a few spots. We lack rubber because, unlike Germany, we make our whole synthetic supply from petroleum, although there is no chemical reason why we should. It merely happens that the rubber patents are owned by the petroleum companies...
...Harmonic Club in Batavia, to the sumptuous Grand Hotel Preanger in Bandung, to the Navy Club in Surabaya, where Conrad Helfrich had passed many solid Dutch afternoons in drink and talk. They were coming to the tin mines, the oil wells, the rice sawahs, the cinchona groves, the rubber plantations where for money and empire many a Dutchman had sweated out his life. To Conrad Helfrich, as to all true colonial Dutchmen, these islands were home in a sense that Holland never could be. Now Hitler had Holland, and the Indies was their only home, and Java was all they...
...Though Jesse Jones admitted having trouble getting his 400,000 tons of synthetic rubber under contract, WPB's Bill Batt told a Senate committee that the new goal is 600,000 tons...
...human intelligence and that steeper virtue, integrity, there is Hitler's immortal remark: "The greatest of spirits can be liquidated if its bearer is beaten to death with a rubber truncheon...