Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purge" him from the Senate. This classic political mistake got Cotton Ed re-elected just as the people of South Carolina were prepared to throw him out. For Cotton Ed exploited the "carpetbag meddling" for all it was worth. Said he, with gallus-snapping righteousness: "You can buy a rubber stamp for a dollar, but you can't buy a man for any price. God made me a man before South Carolina made me a Senator." After that, Cotton Ed's hatred for the President extended to everything that Franklin Roosevelt...
...RUBBER Synthetic and the Future The Office of Rubber Director asked permission last week to cut its own throat...
...first wartime Government agency to put it that way. For rubber pro duction, once the No. 1 U.S. war problem, has been solved. U.S. plants now produce at a rate of 836,000 long tons of synthetic rubber a year (more than 25% above the peak prewar import of crude). ORD has no job left; what remains are manpower problems and production troubles in tire manufacturing...
...only real answer is greater production. The original 1944 goal was 17,500,000 heavy tires for civilian and military uses; thus far, production had averaged about 1,200,000 tires a month. To boost production, Rubber Boss Dewey got the Army to release fully trained tire workers over 30, and stepped up the pace of the $75,000,000 equipment-expansion program...
...Tires for Victory Rally" in Akron, Rubber Director Bradley Dewey urged "every worker whose output helps to build a heavy-duty or airplane tire to make his final sprint." The synthetic production program has succeeded, he said, and "our production capacity is now so great that we have been able to lend some synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities to provide extra quantities of high-octane gasoline. . . ." Then he pointed his finger at the present bottleneck: the lack of manpower and equipment in making heavy-duty tires...