Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, big only in their fury, fought their way down Malaya on a miniature scale. The little men, in light shorts, open shirts and rubber sneakers, or with bare feet, were apparently insufficient targets for the British. As they had used tiny, steel-saving two-man subs at Pearl Harbor, they used in Malaya tiny one-man tanks and two-man gun carriers. The British even said that their doctors cut miniature Japanese bullets out of miniature British wounds...
...home, Dr. Goebbels did not give a rounded picture of Germany facing its third wartime Christmas. He did not say that each German soldier in frozen Norway has had to give up one of his three blankets for use in Russia. He did not tell of a new rubber-saving rule which forbids workers living within two miles of their jobs to cycle to work. He did not explain why some German planes shot down over Britain have inefficient wooden propellers...
...tournaments that precede it in 120 U.S. cities. As embarrassed as if they had to tell them there is no Santa Claus, spokesmen for the Chevrolet company, which puts up the prizes (college scholarships, automobiles, wrist watches, etc.), broke the news to U.S. youngsters. Alleged reason: shortage of rubber and metals for scooter wheels...
...Thomas Henry Stanley (16th Engineers) that it was about time the Army developed a new kind of pontoon bridge for mechanized warfare. The old bridge of planks on boats had not been radically changed since the Civil War, although as early as 1846 the U.S. Army was experimenting with rubber pontoons...
...sunny, warm December morning last week, at Fort Benning, Ga., Armored Force officers got their first look at the new bridge. Instead of boats it has collapsible floats of rubber fabric; instead of planks, parallel steel treadways, 15 ft. long...