Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the New Deal he went into politics as Under Secretary of the Treasury, quit in disgust six months later when the rubber-dollar advocates got Franklin Roosevelt's ear. But Lawyer Acheson, back in private practice, was still a New Dealer, did much behind-the-scenes work on foreign policy (notably the 50-destroyer deal). He came back into Government as Assistant Secretary of State...
...knows how many hundreds of her crew bobbed in the ocean the next morning. Three life rafts and a floater net supported a few. The rest drifted about, held up by rubber life belts or Mae Wests. By mid-afternoon all were blind from the tropical sun, and after dark they shook with cold. About 60 died that night. Their life jackets were ripped off for the living...
...made his first flight into enemy territory on the same Eighth Air Force raid on Wilhelmshaven in which the New York Times's Bob Post was killed. At Anzio the Germans shot out his bathtub when he wasn't in it; after Dday, planes strafed a rubber boat he was in, and missed again...
...Rubber. Plenty of natural rubber is expected to reach the U.S. before long. Rubber producers believe they will find upwards of 200,000 tons of crude rubber ready for shipment when they return to their plantations. One reason: it would have been physically impossible for the Japs to trudge through the thousands of square miles of jungles hacking every tree to destruction...
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s chairman, Paul Weeks Litchfield. predicted that 350,000 tons of crude rubber would be available within a year, 900.000 tons in two years. Rubber processing machinery is on the way to Goodyear's Pathfinder Plantation on Mindanao where a trickle of rubber was produced during the Jap occupation (TIME...