Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expedition has to drag its heavy boats over forested hills to avoid the French on Lake Champlain; sloshes waist-deep in mosquito-infested swamps; forms a human chain to cross the rushing St. Francis River (actors were protected against chills by some 200 suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers...
...making this announcement," the 21-year-old Senior said, "I am prompted by . . . the wide spread demand of Indiana citizens for a non-rubber stamp legislature...
...Among the few exceptions: Franklin Roosevelt's Hundred Days of rubber-stamp legislation, 1933; pork-barrel appropriation bills...
...Scientific and technological results, now awaiting translation into production and distribution, are found in the fields of foods, clothing, plastics, motion pictures, agriculture, chemicals, rubber, transportation, communication, automobiles, airplanes, fuels, housing, lighting, metals...
...Goodyear Tire- & Rubber Co., No. 1 world tire producer, which amazed the public and enraged its competitors last November by cutting its tire prices in the face of rising rubber prices, reported $9,838,797 net for 1939, 63% better than...