Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Acts. WPB's first official actions made good sense. It officially stopped automobile production, curtailed radio production by 45%, virtually ended civilian use of rubber and aluminum. It began a hard-boiled survey of copper inventories, to try to find leaks of that vital metal from arms production. It ordered automobile graveyards turned into scrap, badly needed for steel production...
Each lane he snipped lengthened the distance that U.S. aid must go to reach the Indies, Singapore, Burma, China. More important than the rubber, oil, tin, platinum, coffee, quinine which the Jap's conquests brought him was his occupation of key points. A little farther and he could cut off the U.S. from all routes to the eastern battlefront except around Australia. But now the westernmost prong of the Japanese attack, in and around New Guinea, threatened even the U.S. route to Australia and raised yet another rampart across the Americas' Pacific routes...
...subject was appetizing and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg made the most of it. Did his fellow Senators know, he inquired, that the U.S. Army was going to ask for bids on 1,000 rubber cuspidor mats-which would use up a ton and a half of badly needed rubber? Well, sir, he'd learned precisely that from one of his constituents. His adviser had proposed that "a little drilling of the officers in straight spitting might be a good suggestion...
IRREPLACEABLE Silk Most Rubber Goods...
...town buyers, largest number ever to register in a single day. Many had gone just to look around; they stayed to place even bigger orders than last year-not only for spring goods but also for winter replacements. Biggest orders: men's suits, women's dresses, rubber goods (including girdles & corsets), stockings, blankets, sheets. Biggest buyers: those from defense areas...