Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubber industry, it was almost like the bad old times. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., U.S. Rubber Co. and Firestone cut their tire prices about 10% last week to meet a price cut by B. F. Goodrich Co. This brought the cost of a 6.00 x 16, the most popular tire size, down to $14.40, slightly under the 1941 price. To make things worse for tiremen, independent dealers slashed their prices as low as $11.38 by trimming their normal profit of 25 to 30% down to 10% or less. The reason was simple: there were just too many tires...
...tires piled upon shelves, dealers wondered if they were in for a price war like those that harassed the industry during the '30s. The big rubber companies got ready for trouble. Already 3,000 workers have been laid off in the industry...
...little rivers that feed the Great Lakes, an evil invader was swarming last week by the slithering thousands: the sea lamprey. It looks like a mottled, bluish eel, but instead of a proper mouth it has a round sucker, like the rubber gadget that plumbers use to unplug drains. Inside the rim are rows of small teeth. When a hungry lamprey spies a fish, it darts to the fish's side. The sucker's teeth dig in and get a firm grip. Then the lamprey worries a hole in the fish with a file-like tongue and sucks...
Growls & Whines. Pulverized rubber, burned off the tires by the rough brick track, soon painted a black film on drivers' faces. Some drivers carried powder-puffs, some chamois, to wipe smudged goggles. The cars bounced down the rough straightaway, giving off pungent exhaust fumes; the vibration was hard on drivers' wrists and backs. But the awareness that each turn might mean disaster kept them tense and alert. The basso profundo of a Mercedes growled sullenly out below the whine of Maser and Offenhauser engines as the pack circled the 2½-mile oval...
...tommy-like target rifle works on the principle of the slingshot. It shoots BB-sized ball-bearing pellets, carefully machined so that they will fly straight. The propellant is a thick rubber band inside the barrel. The gun is cocked by stretching the band taut with a metal piece containing the pellet, which slides inside the barrel. The trigger releases the slide which snaps out the pellet...