Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sarawak, a rich tropical land of rubber, oil, antimony, edible birds' nests and rhinoceroses, it has long been recognized that a two-fisted male ruler was needed to make the kingdom's famed headhunters toe the mark. Heir Presumptive to the Sarawak throne was Sir Charles's brother, Bertram. But Bertram is now 63, too old to assume new burdens. So Anthony Brooke, Bertram's 27-year-old son, was named Raja Muda (Crown Prince...
...acute German shortages: petroleum, iron, cotton, copper, wool, oils, fats. He reminded the House that there was in Germany an "abnormal desire to convert currency into goods from 'fear of future inflation. . . . Important steel works may have to suspend operations for lack of raw materials. Many factories making rubber are closing for lack of raw materials and others are working below capacity. There is a shortage of accessories. . . . The textile situation is acute...
...tons of coal. Germany may produce as much this year as in 1938-186 million tons, highest production since 1913-but coal is Germany's largest single export commodity, and what is left at home is mostly commandeered for industrial uses for the manufacture of synthetic gasoline and rubber. Last week Berlin was shivering in a desperate fuel shortage...
...American-Hawaiian let out two ships on charter to trie Orient to pick up tin and rubber, strategic materials for which British bottoms are no longer available. At year's end the line declared an extra 50? dividend...
...confusion for the army, a lapse that must never recur . . ."), with intimate affection of the quieter moments of routine ("Like the Lord's Prayer, you had it all by heart . . . feet, head, belly, legs; nearside, offside, eyes, nose, dock; hoof-pick, body-brush, dandy-brush, sponge, stable-rubber, wisp . . . 'Stables' hour was as sacred as the twenty minutes before the drawing room door opened and nurse came in to say that it was bed time . . ."). And with a dogged, unhurried intensity he makes Tubby Windrush grow up, grow sick of soldiering...