Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invented the panchromatic base, a tan cream which would evenly reflect all lights, thus keep faces or lips from fading out. Then came the "hair lace wig," which added years of professional life to balding oldsters like Bing Crosby, Charles Boyer, Jack Benny and Fred Astaire, and molded rubber faces for Frankenstein's monster & Mr. Hyde. He also devised a foolproof method for other make-up men to use. He catalogued all women's faces in five basic types, i.e., Claudette Colbert has a "diamond" face, Ann Sheridan a "square" face, etc. The same technique is applied...
...whose stockpile of natural rubber is down to a scant 100,000 tons, got good news from Wallace Ellwood Cake, U.S. Rubber Co. official. He arrived in Manhattan from Sumatra, where he had been a Jap prisoner, with a first-hand report on Far Eastern rubber. Said Cake: 1) the Far East has 250,000 tons of rubber ready to ship; 2) production next year may reach 550,000 tons...
Damage to trees and plantations, in general, was small. In Malaya the British estimated that only 5% of the trees were destroyed. But on its $38-million plantation in Sumatra the U.S. Rubber Co. lost 1.8 million trees out of 10 million. The Japs cleared the land to raise food...
...Honolulu, he was on hand for the initial bombardment of Guam. "By that period of the war our fire support ships steamed so close to the coast that a native of Guam on the Honolulu could see his house, and proposed that he and I go ashore in a rubber boat as a two-man task force to give his friends the good word. Fortunately this plan did not appeal to Admiral Ainsworth, as the native in ques- tion was an excellent cook, and his loss would have been irreplaceable...
...Garimpeiros. Last week's palace coup hardly rippled the crowds of Cariocas on Rio's lovely, white-sand beaches. The echo was even fainter to the great mass of Brazilians (some 75% illiterate) who crowd the sea coast and are scattered through the vast Brazilian interior. Seringueiros (rubber workers) in the flowered Amazon jungle, garimpeiros (diamond hungers) far to the west in the State of Goiaz, and gaúchos on the broad ranges of Rio Grande do Sul probably would not hear the news for days and weeks...