Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served; then the delegates prepared to mediate. Before either Thailand or Indo-China could present a claim or grievance, Japan handed both a bill for her services as mediator - to be paid in advance. She demanded: a virtual monopoly over Indo-China's production of rice, rubber and coal; a free hand to exploit Indo-China's natural resources; military garrisons along the Chinese frontier; Japanese inspectors at all Indo-Chinese customs houses ; a naval base at strategic Camranh Bay and defense concessions at Saigon; air bases throughout Indo-China. From Thailand she demanded a naval base...
...Last summer, while she was playing at the Cape Playhouse at Dennis, Mass., she married tall, dignified Theatrical Producer Richard Stoddard Aldrich, 38, son of a late Hood Rubber executive' who headed the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1924. A short time after the wedding Gertie got a congratulatory cable from England...
Head of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, vice president of United Mine Workers, and more important, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Murray is boss of the majority of workers in key industries of defense: automobiles, aircraft, rubber, clothing, electrical supplies, coal-and steel. Defense industry will have to listen to him soon. For every boom, including a defense boom, touches off labor trouble. Such troubles are now being made as surely as airplanes and tanks. Whether they can be settled without weakening the preparations of the U. S. and without impairing the rights of labor depends first...
...Atlantic coast, but 204 destroyers are parceled out all over the place-to such firms as Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. of Chickasaw, Ala., Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Consolidated Steel Corp. at Orange, Tex. Exclusive of combat types, Chairman Vinson's summary listed 1,770 other craft, ranging from 564 rubber boats (built by Goodyear, presumably for Marine landing parties) to lighters, harbor tugs and minesweepers. Summarizing this intelligence, Carl Vinson announced that during 1940 the Navy had set down $6,558,068,570 in contracts for 2,048 assorted craft (including small boats). The Navy had also spent...
...months Drs. Shatzky and Lewis waited anxiously for the books. Finally six large, swastika-stamped boxes arrived. When they pried open the boxes they found just what the doctors had hoped they had ordered: the library of Sigmund Freud. Most of the books were marked with his rubber stamp or signature. Among the items: Freud's medical-school texts; eleven rare volumes of Mesmerism (alone worth more than $500); a privately printed volume for "Le Roi de France" on animal magnetism (value...