Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night Galbraith and his staff worked to make the order effective: they notified 200,000 tire retailers, sent telegrams to every governor and to mayors demanding police enforcement. By next morning the ban was airtight and puncture-proof-to remain until a rationing system which will insure enough rubber for the Army and Navy can be worked...
...Angeles Times started a new classified-advertising section called "Defense Aids." A Manhattan department store used half a newspaper page to advertise air-raid whistles, asbestos gloves, first-aid kits, rubber boots, flashlights, axes, shovels, a 100-lb. sack of sand...
Management representatives chosen for the council: W.P. Witherow, president of Blaw-Knox and new president of the National Association of Manufacturers; Rubber Executive Cyrus Ching and Shipping Tycoon Roger Lapham (both of the National Defense Mediation Board); General Electric's Charles Wilson; Lawrence Bell (aircraft); W. Gibson Carey Jr. (Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.); Donald Comer (Avondale Mills); Robert M. Gaylord (Ingersoll Milling Machine Co.); Paul Hoffman (Studebaker Corp.); Charles Hook (American Rolling Mill Co.); Thomas R. Jones (American Type Founders, Inc.); Reuben Robertson (Champion Fiber...
...citizens this week begin feeling the effects of the nation's reduced supplies of natural rubber, they will also begin hearing more & more about synthetic rubbers. Shortage or no shortage, synthetic rubbers will soon be making war news, for in many respects they are better than tree-bled rubber-notably for making the gas-retaining, sun-resisting barrage balloons which soon may be floating over such "air-raided" cities as San Francisco and New York...
Strictly speaking, there are no real synthetic rubbers, chemically identical with natural rubber, yet artificially made. Instead there are only 1) substitutes, and 2) kindred stretchy substances which chemists prefer to call "elastomers...