Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later that evening, which was bonny, clear-skied, and warm enough to discard topcoats, Hyde Park was lively with strollers and the Serpentine with boats, and a vendor at Marble Arch was briskly selling red rubber balls painted with the faces of Hitler and Mussolini. In Leicester Square crowds jammed the first anniversary showing of Gone With the Wind and the first week of Shaw's Major Barbara. On the radio, Sir Adrian Boult was conducting a memorial concert to Sir Hamilton Harty. Two hundred Harrod's employes carried home gas masks, after a gas test...
Without forming a Cabinet, he hastily reconvened Parliament, which agreed to everything, promised that the new Iraq Government would respect all treaties, most especially those with Britain. Also rubber-stamped was the appointment of a new Regent, an aging, holy-minded relative of King Feisal named Sherif Sharaf...
...Each unit is raised "bout a foot and a half off the ground on four zigzag iron legs which stretch like automobile jacks. Windows made of Plexiglas, run head-high around each building, are hinged so they can be pushed out from the bottom. Floors are made of composition rubber, and through the center of the peaked ceilings run electric tubes for illumination...
...commander, rangy, red-haired Lieut. Colonel Frank R. Williams of the Armored Force, was sitting on a 14-inch-square leather seat, bolted to the iron deck, alongside the 75-mm. gun. His head, protected by a yellow leather crash helmet, was pressed against an oblong sponge-rubber rim which framed the eyepiece of an 18-in. telescopic gun sight. Whenever his target centered in the cross hairs of the sight, he touched an electric firing key, watched a 15-lb. high-explosive projectile rip through a framework target tank...
...steady accretion of Germany's strength. From the nations he invaded or persuaded-Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Poland, Norway, the Lowlands, the Balkans, France-Hitler eased to varying extents strategic shortages of oil, iron, aluminum, manganese, cellulose, molybdenum and food. By developments of substitutes he eased pressure for rubber, to some extent for gasoline and quinine. He is still hard up for copper (but hopes to increase his stores by the conquest of Yugoslavia) and nickel (but has eased that shortage by seizing the nickel coinage of occupied countries...