Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copper, essential to munitions, is not on the U. S. War Department's list of strategic materials because the U. S. has plenty. But Russia's buying spree has brought some U. S. exporters less innocent profits. Few weeks ago New Yorkers were selling spot rubber and pig tin (both of which the U. S. must import) for reexport through Amtorg, chief U. S. purchasing agent of the Soviet Government. War and Navy Department officials, having failed to build stockpiles of these essentials, cracked down with a "moral embargo." Said they, nipping one 500-ton sale...
...last week Amtorg was still buying plenty of copper, wheat, gasoline in New York, reputedly still looking for rubber and tin. Its head, stocky, forceful K. I. Lukashov, former president of Leningrad University, was also moving his busy staff to new and larger quarters at No. 210 Madison Ave. (diagonally opposite the home of J. P. Morgan...
...also told pet-owners about the type of toys they should not give to pets. "Rubber constitutes a very dangerous foreign substance...
High scorer Warren Winslow, who sank the rubber 10 times this season, usually sparks the Crimson attack at the center position on the first line. A good stick-handler and passer, Winslow has been surprisingly subtle in evading opposing defensemen and in setting up plays. Main sparkplug of the second forward trio, Stacy Hulse, is second highest scorer, with nine tallies to his credit...
...triumph is all the more thumping because, as a movie, The Earl of Chicago never quite knows where it is going. Starting as a comedy in Chicago, it turns into stark drama under the impact of British manners and manors. Silky, once a carefree, moronic young mobster, snapping rubber bands at a pair of shapely legs (their tantalizing owner never steps into the picture), goes to his death (by hanging) in the regalia and with the dignity of a peer of the realm...