Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doing so, the Army shifted some aircraft contracts from Southern California to Dallas to relieve the tight California manpower area (see Manpower), and eased the Akron rubber pinch (see BUSINESS) by transferring aircraft-parts contracts to Evansville, Ind. But this did not stop what United Automobile Workers' (C.I.O.) R. J. Thomas last week called "cutback jitters...
Helen Sobel makes no money out of tournament bridge. A.C.B.L. matches prohibit betting and cash awards. Many an expert earns his keep by playing rubber bridge. Mrs. Sobel usually plays at Manhattan's Cavendish Club. She hates to teach bridge, and seldom does. She also hates to write about bridge, lets...
Story: 22 hungry actors are interned in a Manhattan hotel by a large unpaid bill. A backer appears with a check (rubber) and a protégée (Anne Jeffreys) who falls for The Voice. Even Sinatraddicts may gasp at the shots in which reluctant Mr. Sinatra and enthusiastic Miss Jeffreys practically reenact the Fall of Man in a telephone booth...
Akron was falling down on its war job. The town last week had become a No. 1 trouble spot in the U.S. Grimy, rubber-smelling Akron is counted on to produce two-thirds of all the heavy tires needed for military guns and supply trucks and for half of all the U.S. heavy-duty tires. But Akron failed by 30% to meet its heavy-tire quotas in July and seems to be falling further behind. Result...
...this latest rubber crisis, WPB appealed for an immediate increase in tire production-a full 30%, now when the need is greatest. Could Akron meet...