Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ecuador lie mostly between the Marañón and Napo Rivers, tributaries of the Amazon (plus a picayune area along the Pacific coast). They are made up of a little fertile highland, a little more barren mountainside and much more tangled jungle, from which come a bit of rubber and some desiccated human heads for the tourist trade...
...such pushovers as French Indo-China, Japan has been unable to make up her mind to attack anybody since she bogged down in China. Last fortnight a Japanese economic mission to the Indies returned empty-handed to Japan, and last week the Indies decided to sell nearly all its rubber output to the U.S. after...
...Sections. All three will get added work. Biggers will also head the Commodity Sections responsible for steel, aluminum, magnesium, paper, pulp and chemicals. Nelson will boss the sections where purchasing problems are most important, such as textiles, food, drugs and clothing. Silver-topped Ed Stettinius will also take on rubber, copper, zinc, similar materials, but will continue to exercise his statutory control over priority matters. All actions for priority, in whatever section they originate, must be approved...
...been a storm center. From New York to Chicago, from Boston to New Orleans, victims real and imaginary have yelled against it. At last week's hearing, Frank S. Davis, of Boston's Maritime Association, pictured Boston's ships and docks deserted and rusting while rubber and wood pulp went through the Seaway...
...number one headache to national defense is the failure of OPM's chiefs to avoid the serious production shortage of vital: 1. Rubber...