Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, cigar in hand, rode the rear seat of a tandem at the head of a bicycle cavalcade through Atlanta to popularize pedaling, declared at the finish that cycling not only saved gas and rubber but beautified the complexion...
...added corsets and brassieres to its list of products for which some rubber would be released. The industry's Harold Kurzman said this meant women to whom corsets were "essential" would get them. He did not define the term...
...burden for Lend-Lease: The British depended heavily upon their Far Eastern tin and rubber exports for much of the dollar exchange, which they still need. The Empire's pre-Pearl Harbor contribution (exclusive of the United Kingdom itself): some $50,000,000 a month...
...about Dufour & Rogers, the Belascos of outdoor entertainment. They rule "that curious world of 60,000 outdoor show people, the 'carnies,' who travel from town to town with carnivals." Ferocious Mr. Rogers and suave Mr. Dufour work their clients after the classical manner of detective teams, one rubber-hosing, the other soft-soaping. One of the more lucrative of their develop ments is the Aboriginal Village, on which the "nut" (overhead) is small "once the concessionaire has learned the fact, unreported by anthropologists, that all primitive peoples exist by preference on a diet of hamburger steak." Still more...
...Auxiliary Firemen is great. Officials estimate that it will be necessary to have at least five volunteers to every regular firemen. In case of an emergency, the auxiliaries will go out with the professional men, as assistants. Decision has not yet been made concerning the equipment, such as rubber boots, coats, and helmets, to be used by the volunteers...