Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solid lesson in the disadvantages of war" and grievously hurt the German economy, but it was the campaign against specific industries which brought the temple down. The most effective attacks were the U.S. assaults against synthetic oil plants, which the Germans viewed as catastrophic and which profoundly affected synthetic rubber production, synthetic nitrogen and methanol (necessary for explosives). Attacks on railways and waterways were the decisive blow...
...Information Ministry's new Director of Broadcasts. "Bien, bien!-Fine, fine!" nervous bureaucrats exclaimed. They bustled around, tidied up his desk, and put a sign, "Broadcast Control Office," on his door. Program directors, producers and script writers filed into Room 205 to have their manuscripts bureaucratically edited and rubber-stamped...
...practical Hollanders exploited the archipelago as one vast plantation, funneling its pepper, coffee, rubber, tin, oil and cinchona bark into world trade instead of their own, less voracious home market. They neither westernized nor Christianized the old (mainly Mohammedan) cultures. They did not get around to abolishing slavery until just before the U.S. did, gave the Indonesians no voice in government until this century...
Speaking during the intermission of the United States Rubber Company's broadcast of the New York Philharmonic program last Sunday, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, emphasized the necessity for having a "science...
...went for Mrs. Scholz and the Teen-Ager's mother: "We have been horrified by the beating of helpless persons by the cruel guards in the prison camps of Germany and Japan. Is it not time for us to be deeply shocked by ordinary American parents who use rubber hose or strap on their defenseless children...