Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event of possible capture, changed to civilian clothes with U.S. labels at the last moment. The U-boat, which ran seven miles up the Bay from the Atlantic, surfaced 300 yards from shore, cloaked by snow and darkness, and two of her sailors paddled the spies ashore in a rubber boat...
...been told France had suffered economically under German occupation. I saw fat horses drawing farm wagons, many with rubber tires. We went to the Ritz hotel . . . the big brass doorknobs and all the decorations were there...
...rooming house. But even at a bar, an ex-sergeant of paratroopers who has won a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a shell fragment in his right leg and a bayonet scar on his arm, gets bored-especially after a humdrum day on the job at a New Jersey rubber plant. Mike ordered still another drink...
...German resistance stiffened into a crashing offensive, the Army hastily reconsidered. WPBoss Krug had dumped on his desk plans to build one billion dollars' worth of new war plants. These would be for high-octane gas (the octane shortage had been "solved" months ago), for tires (the rubber problem had been "solved"), for jet motors and scores of brand-new weapons...
This new world of machines, which may well play a key part in furnishing some of the millions of postwar jobs needed, is by necessity a young man's world. In electronics, synthetic rubber, radar, aviation gas, etc. the young men were in at the start. By the time they were proven, it was too late for the older men to catch up. Company after company, totting up the average age of its new experts, found it as low as 25. Probably 50% of the engineers and chemists in the synthetic-rubber industry are under 26. Some...