Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...races this year the Crimson and Tech have each defeated the other by a margin of two feet, so that tomorrow's tilt will serve as a rubber match for the two. In addition, Harvard was hard pressed to beat Princeton by four feet last weekend, and at the same time Penn came within two feet of upsetting the Engineers. Only Columbia seems out of the running...
...Harvard groups which has put forth any tangible effort to further the aims which the College as a whole has espoused. The money collected from the students will provide food, clothing, and shelter for the harassed sons of Albion. Everything from bomb-proof shelters for shel-shocked children, to rubber gloves for fire fighters will be purchased with the funds...
...weeks before war was declared, after six weeks of intensive effort, Baruch, commissioner in charge of raw materials, had set up organizations for total war: industrial committees of leaders in the great materials groups: leather, rubber, steel, wool, nickel, oil, zinc, coal, spruce wood. Then, at a time when War Department officers had no plans, even hypothetical, for the organization and equipment of an army of any size, the Advisory Commission began calculating what an army of 1,000,000 men would need...
...Pacific carried by ships which formerly continued on through the canal to East Coast ports. Since ships waste 30-35 days going to the East Coast and returning to the Pacific, such cargoes now will be landed on the West Coast, sent overland by rail. Important among them are rubber (estimated to amount to 354,000 tons this year), and tin (45,000 tons) from the Far East. Furthermore, nitrates (300,000 tons) and copper (300,000 tons) from South America's West Coast may soon be landed in the South, shipped north by rail...
...took her out wining and dining, Her arms were like wide rubber bands, The stars were romantically shining And as we bounced home we held hands. I squeezed her hand very tightly, I rather thought she wouldn't mind. But when the walk ended Her arm had extended, And she was still six blocks behind...