Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them off. He does not even mind driving 30 miles into Hollywood three days a week to work free for OWI. One night after a Fibber & Molly show about gasoline rationing, Quinn got home to find himself in a quandary: there was a telegram from William Jeffers, then national rubber director, complimenting him on the program; there was also a letter from his ration board, denying him supplemental gasoline...
...from Norman Rockwell's familiar, realistic The Four Freedoms, which hangs at the entrance, to Josef Albers' Growing, a pure abstraction of irregularly shaped pink and green rectangles, hung in a corner of the farthest gallery. Between these extremes are such items as Philip Evergood's Rubber Raft, a war footnote in which two helpless, parched men sprawl on a raft surrounded by voracious sharks; Atlantic Pastorale, a surrealist ballet-in-seaweed by Leon Kelly; Darrel Austin's spellbinding half-dream of a mountain lion, The Great Beast; William Cropper's satirical Art Patrons...
Unfortunately, The Way Ahead is thick with rubber stamps of British picturemaking. Good taste and good sense are too often dimmed by unimaginative treatment...
...European industry creaks back to life, lack of raw materials is a brake on production. All industries are short of steel, coal, chemicals, rubber, textiles...
Government bungling (failure to offer the Cubans enough to induce heavy planting), the use of 900,000 tons of sugar to make synthetic rubber, plus 26% greater demands by the services, plus strikes in Puerto Rico, plus a drought in Cuba, had cut the amount of sugar available for U.S. civilians from last year's 6.1 million tons to less than five million...