Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formula which would be more flexible than the badly bent "Little Steel" formula. ¶ The 40-hour week would again be standard. That meant an immediate cut in the take-home pay ¶ Controls on raw materials would be lifted completely, except on still critical items, such as tin, rubber, lumber. Industry would be given a green light, but WPB would remain as a sort of umpire to prevent a mad and unseemly scramble. One result: automobile-makers (with WPB blessing) promptly upped their estimates of how many cars can be turned out in 1945-from...
...below). ¶ Asked Congress to abolish the three-man Surplus Property Board, put the job under one man (presumably Businessman William Stuart Symington III of St. Louis, his appointed chairman). ¶ Ordered the Petroleum Administration to take over and operate the strike-threatened (C.I.O.) butadiene plant of Sinclair Rubber Inc. at Houston. ¶Asked "any patriotic American" who could to go to work on the western railroads, to help move men and supplies Pacificward (see BUSINESS...
...Rubber Boss. When Jeffers went to Washington in 1942 to straighten out the rubber program, his loud ways proved effective. Critics sneered that all he had was a "good publicity man." But plain citizens were delighted at the way he exploded at Congressmen and "bunglers." He bulled through half of the rubber program at a time when a battering ram was more effective than a reasoned argument. When he went back to his $75,000 a year job with the U.P. (later he carefully collected the 97? which Uncle Sam owed him on his $1 a year salary), the rubber...
...Promise Me. Motorists with A-cards can expect to get new tires next February or March. So John L. Collyer predicted last week, as he resigned as WPB's rubber boss to resume the presidency of B. F. Goodrich Co. Like all rubber promises, this one was elastic: the U.S. will be dangerously short of natural rubber by year's end, will have only 66,000 tons on hand. Before A-card civilians get their tires, the U.S. will have to find 75,000 more tons of natural rubber than are now in sight...
...Boston store has given SPB one moneymaking example. It bought surplus gas masks from SPB. From rubber tubes on the mask, it made bicycle handlebar covers; from the glass lenses it made workshop goggles; by painting the canisters it sold them as powder-puff holders. From what was left it made toy gas masks...