Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mission was as risky as any the O.S.S. ever plotted. Fifteen U.S. soldiers of Italian descent were to slip ashore in rubber boats, 400 miles behind the German lines. On the main-line railway between Genoa and La Spezia, they were to blow up a tunnel which air attack had failed to seal. The mission ended in their death, March 26, 1944, before a Nazi firing squad...
...indignant Teen-Ager retorted: "Mrs. Scholz's letter in today's paper cost me a licking. Mine come whenever mother reads articles in the paper favoring spanking. Mother takes me to the basement recreation room and uses a piece of rubber tubing-you know where. It hurts terribly...
...breakneck race to deliver postwar toys in time for Christmas, the $200 million toy industry was falling behind. By last week manufacturers were ready to admit that this will be another year of cardboard and wood makeshifts: there will be few, if any, dolls of prewar quality, few rubber balls that really bounce, few electric trains, velocipedes, roller skates, bicycles and other wheeled and metal toys...
...industry was hobbled by shortages and reconversion problems. Examples: Not for 1945. The lifting of restrictions on the nonessential use of rubber came too late in the season for manufacturers of balls and rubber novelties...
Deflation. In the Malay States, where word of the great U.S. synthetic rubber industry presumably had not penetrated Jap censorship, native growers hopefully asked as high as $2 a lb. for their small stocks of natural rubber. With an estimated 20,000 tons of rubber believed stored near Singapore, the growers were stunned last week when British authorities set the price at 36 Malayan cents a lb. (about 17¼? in U.S. currency). At this price the growers were in no hurry to sell the rubber they had furtively hoarded and hidden from the Japs...