Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is no leather or rubber to repair shoes. (New shoes, rationed, are of wood or ersatz...
Once he inquired: "What aid to feminine beauty do you detest most?" Prompt was the answer of a frustrated male: "Bust developers made of sponge rubber." On another occasion he posed the question: "Did you ever kiss a man with a beard, and what reaction was there?" A girl replied: "Yes, when I was young and having my teeth straightened. Some of his whiskers caught in my wire brace, and he said 'ouch...
...Added six items to its priorities critical list (some 300 materials on which Army and Navy get first call): rubber and rubber goods, fire-prevention and fire-fightins; equipment, Halowax (for insulation), neat's-foot oil, hospital and field laboratory equipment, portable oxygen units...
...Rubber...
Under industry-wide mandatory priorities, which means that no supplier can sell them except to customers who have priority rating, were 14 materials: aluminum, borax (and boric acid),* copper, cork, ferro-tungsten, machine tools, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, polyvinyl chloride (for plastics), rubber, synthetic rubber, tungsten high-speed steel, zinc. Pig iron was soon to be added. So were some heavy chemicals-sulfuric acid and possibly ammonia...