Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control the operation, purchase, charter, requisition and use of all ocean vessels under the flag or control of the U.S. (except fighting ships and those engaged in coastwise, intercoastal and inland transportation). Purpose: to set up a shipping pool to serve military and economic strategy, i.e., to bring in rubber instead of tapioca. The new WSAdministrator: leathery, salty Rear Admiral Emory S. ("Jerry") Land, 63, head of the Maritime Commission...
...tons of water poured into the Lafayette, she listed 16 degrees to port, snapping her hawsers like rubber bands. Trying to keep her from capsizing, the Navy ordered holes cut in an empty water tank on the starboard side, to pump in water for balance. But early next morning, as the tide came in and lifted her heavy stern from the shallow river bottom, the Lafayette toppled, rolled over ignominiously on her side...
...Chemistry Department emphasized that rubber tubing, rubber stoppers, and corks should be used with the utmost economy because about 30,000 feet of tubing, 200 to 300 pounds of stoppers, and 150,000 to 200,000 corks of all sizes are used annually. No actual shortage exists at present, but the Department is trying to conserve supplies for a possible lean, period in the future...
Admitting that it was no new idea, Mazza said that he had done the same thing at the Hood Rubber Company in Waltham during the first World War. By the time the plan had run its course there, Mazza's plan had sold over $3000 in bonds...
...question as to whether or not Japan will be able to make use of the resources of the Dutch East Indies in time to improve her own industrial and military capacity. Some observers claim that she has not enough well-trained specialists to reorganize the ruined oil and rubber industries of the Spice Islands. But even if this is true, it is being extremely unrealistic to sit back and say that all we have to do is establish a blockade of the South China Sea and Japan will automatically fold up in short order. Besides the fact that...