Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee are of Arnold's mind, some are frankly antilabor; and Arnold's basic underground work has been effective. Oklahoma's Monroney can be expected to steer a middle course between the Congressmen who want to coerce labor at the bayonet point and those who are rubber stamps for union politicians...
...Mayor won, but his victory was short-lived. Last month when the "pots and pans" started to move to the smelters many another thing went along with them: old iron, rubber tires, whole refrigerators, baby carriages and bicycles. Some of the items, baby carriages for example, had only two ounces of aluminum in 50 pounds of bulk. The smelters screamed because they had to pay freight on stuff they could not use; in addition had to pay men to cull the aluminum, a job usually done by the junk man. Worse still, the smelters began to run out of storage...
...cartel (which controls 97% of the world's crude rubber production) has yet to produce up to the previous quota of 100%. Moreover, rubber trees take seven years to mature; so output cannot be increased overnight. But there are some idle trees to be tapped in the East Indies now. The big plantation owners, who tap their trees carefully, will probably not increase their production much. But the natives, who grow half the East Indies rubber and whose real capacity is at best a district officer's guess, will tap trees to the point of destroying them...
...Rubber Reserve Co. has two excuses for its failure to free the U.S. from dependence on the Far East to date: competitive buying by other nations, and the soaring rate of consumption in the U.S. (a record 618,592 tons last year, 425,000 tons in the first half of this year). But domestic consumption has been under strict control since June, when Rubber Reserve assumed a monopoly over all U.S. imports. Same month OPM worked out manufacturing quotas. Last week July consumption figures were announced as 68,653 tons-19.1% below June...
SEEING IS BELIEVING-Carter Dickson -Morrow ($2). At an English party, Vicky Fane, under a hypnotic spell, is forced to stab her husband with a rubber dagger-which changes to steel as she drives it home. Irascible Sir Henry Merrivale, interrupting the dictation of his libelous memoirs, supplies a transparently simple solution to an apparently insoluble problem. Good mental exercise and robustly amusing...