Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Neighbor policy (rubber division) got another boost last week when President Roosevelt vetoed a bill which would have encouraged the growing of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants. His objection: the bill's encouragement was confined to the U.S.; he wanted Mexican and Brazilian rubber promoted too. A Senate committee hastily revised the bill to promote guayule-growing anywhere in the Western Hemisphere...
Mexico can afford to sell new tires in order to lure tourists. Enough crude rubber is stored in Mexican tire factories to keep them running as usual through 1942. Made of guayule rubber, with small amounts of Brazilian crude, these tires are the same kind the U.S. may eventually get. But even the best of them-General Popo, Goodrich Euzcadi-are none too good. Said an amiable Mexican: "They don't wear as long-but then, you don't pay as much for them...
Congressman McKeough, whom the enemy Tribune immediately dubbed "Small Potatoes" McKeough, is no ball of fire. In his seven years in Congress he has sponsored no important legislation, has made few speeches on the floor, has rubber-stamped all New Deal legislation, with only one painful exception: he voted last August against extending the draft. He has saved his slambang oratory so exclusively for Cook County that he is relatively unknown downstate, even to most party leaders. His only opposition...
...Used as an adulterant, it can greatly increase our synthetic rubber output...
Saint-Exupéry brought plane and crew safely back. His gas and oil tanks were pierced, but the rubber lining sealed them. He also brought back a personal proof of the profoundest of Christian texts: Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit...