Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business: no more pencil erasers, typewriter erasers, rubber bands (the U.S. uses some 30,000,000,000 bands a year). Stockings and underpants will draggle down minus garters, stocking tops, elastic waist bands. Feet will get wet: fewer galoshes, boots, rubbers. Relaxation will be harder: no more foamed rubber latex auto cushions, Pullman cushions, home and hospital mattresses. Hair will be stringier on next year's beaches: no more bathing caps (last year: 11,500,000); and no more rubber bathing suits...
...Hollywood, fewer props for horror pictures: no more rubber for prehistoric monsters, masks, cobwebs (for haunted houses), fake alligators, fake snakes...
...Notable exceptions to the rubber ban: hospital utensils, contraceptives...
...East, that object will be all but accomplished. The pincers will close on Russia and China. Without supply they will almost inevitably succumb. The pincers will then be reversed to close in on Britain and the U.S. -both cut off by then from their war supplies of tin and rubber. The pincers would close first on the outposts of the Western Hemisphere (Britain and Australia), next on America itself. The Battle of the Hemispheres would be joined, with the U.S. on the short...
Mistakes. The British had not scorched the earth as they should have. At Penang, strategic island base on Malaya's east coast, they had destroyed military establishments in the withdrawal, but had left warehouses full of rubber, several months' supplies of rice, and-incredible blunder-all utilities working like a charm. At week's end the unscorched Penang radio repeatedly broadcast: "Hello, Singapore, how do you like our bombings...