Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laboratories had developed a method for commercial production of a new gasoline, triptane, potentially four times as powerful as 100-octane. Estimated cost: $.50-$1 a gallon. The Society presented its highest award, the Priestley Medal, to Harvard's President James Bryant Conant for his work on synthetic rubber and as chairman of OSRD's National Defense Research Committee. Bernard Baruch declared that President Conant was chiefly responsible for breaking the technological deadlock in synthetic-rubber production. Other highlights...
...Amendments. Ohio-born and Iowa-reared, Jim Reed came to the Senate after four turbulent years as Kansas City's reform mayor. He fought Wilson early & late. In 1913, a Democrat-loaded House rubber-stamped Wilson's Federal Reserve Bill through in 13 hours. Senate Democrats were all set to do the same. Reed balked. Wilson's anger boiled over. But by the time the bill became law, it had 562 amendments, mostly added by Reed; and Reed had a letter from a chastened Wilson admitting that the law had been strengthened...
...Wartime additions: almost 65,000 vessels, from rubber landing boats to battleships, totaling nearly 9,000,000 displacement tons. Some 775 are combatant vessels; others are auxiliaries, tenders...
...seaman and pilot - he was a lieutenant (j.g.) when discharged - failed to loosen his Long Island roots. He has a small-towner's taste in clothes, usually wears blue-striped shirts and striped ties. He is particular only about his shoes, which must have thick, crepe-rubber soles (he bought ten pairs just before World War II began). These bulky sneakers are easy on his feet as he shambles over the acres of plant floors...
Down in one department the Hon. Mr. Beckham stood over worker No. 357-908 watching her as she went about her rubbery task. As he rubber-necked, worker No. 356-667 called across two across of assembly line in her sweet little voice, "Hey, Edna, stop drooling...