Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here's the situation as it stood at the end of Columbia's short summer season. In this Corner we have the boys kicked into the back room by the KCAC. They say independent collegiate journalism at Columbia has been dealt a death blow by Dean McKnight and his rubber-stamp "undergraduate" body, and they have a lot of allies among Columbia's student leaders...
Referee in the dispute will apparently be Dean McKnight, who grows purple when it is suggested that the Emergency Council is his rubber stamp. When Columbia's employees' union struck for higher pay and better working conditions the Spectator compared wage scales at other New York colleges and came out in support of the union. There are certain things which college administrative officials don't like to see in print. People are wondering whether McKnight will continue to use his weight to muzzle Spec...
...many autos would G.M. be able to make now? How many could the industry make? The U.S. had a big stake in the answers, vastly bigger than the mere desire for new cars. One out of every seven persons in the U.S. depends on the industry in some manner (rubber workers, filling-station operators, etc.) for their living. And G.M. was almost half (47%) of the auto industry...
Miraculously two rubber rafts had also floated up. The three men got in and lashed them together. They took inventory: six lbs. of chocolate and enough water in emergency cans for a few swallows apiece for two days...
Dream of Eating. They caught two small fish and once Zamperini grabbed a baby shark by its tail and flipped it into the raft. By the same kind of desperate alertness they caught three small birds and four albatrosses which lit innocently on their rubber boats...