Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just back from our tour through several manufacturing plants, we find an all-pervading smell of rubber in our hair, clothes and taste buds. But it was an exhilarating experience and I think some of us are just beginning to realize just what business 'production in particular is all about. Another one of these trips would be in order any time the School should decide to plan...
These of us who visited the Hood Rubber Co. had an enlightening experience. We now know the effect the average male has on the average female. As one man put it, "We must have reduced production 20% but think of the morale of the worker!" Think of the frustration of the workers, we reply...
...back in the small space of the upside-down cockpit. His feet disappeared somewhere in the jumble of dials and rubber pedals above him. His shirt was open and his chest was bare to the waist. He was smoking a cigaret...
...Force's first mission was Kiska, where two regiments went ashore in rubber boats with instructions to use nothing but their icepick-shaped stilettos on the Japs. There were no Japs there, but the Force made the most of it, learned more about living and marching in the field, refused to be tempted into "trigger-happy" firing...
After Rome, Forceman Frederick became a major general (at 37) and took the airborne command for the invasion of southern France. Colonel Edwin A. Walker, one of the regimental commanders, took over, led the outfit in its toughest fight yet, a landing in rubber boats on Levant Island, which guarded the approaches through Cavalaire...