Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be pleased to invite a crew of TIME'S truth-delvers and fact-finders to station themselves at vantage points throughout the Stork Club and observe with what regularity the bon vivants turn over their checks before removing the rubber bands from their wallets. And the same holds true at all of Gotham's popular watering places...
Snap Prophecy. In Los Angeles, a sign in a stationer's window read: "We are now taking orders for rubber bands...
...feud was born in the years of bitter, even bloody fighting between the C.I.O. Rubber Workers union and rubber's Big Four of Akron (Goodyear, Goodrich, General and Firestone). Akron was saddled with a six-hour day, which management started during the depression, and which the rubber workers grimly held to thereafter. Not till January of this year did the last group of Akron's tire workers agree to work eight hours, even for war. The whole tire industry's 45.5 hour week is under the national war industry average...
...such scientific control that many pieceworkers collect the same amount in their paychecks-down to the last cent. For long, companies approved the quota-it kept skilled employes from burning themselves out in overwork. Publicly union bigwigs deplore the quota; privately, workers rigidly enforce it. Two months ago, eight rubber workers began serving jail sentences in Akron for beating a fellow unionist who had exceeded his quota...
...Bite. In the face of this situation Akron does not chew as much war work as it has bitten off. As tire-making slacked when rubber got scarce, the Big Four grabbed orders for rubber rafts, gas tanks, ammunition, etc. Goodyear even set up its own aircraft unit, now employs 24,000 turning out Corsair fighters and plane parts. This was good business as long as the synthetic rubber program floundered. But now synthetic is pouring in, and Akron is trying to turn out more heavy tires than ever before...