Word: springless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Banded together in springless trucks and dusty cattle cars, the rubber troops began their trek. Some turned out to be vagrants and rogues who brawled and thieved. Foreign-Legion-like, these seldom asked each others' names, got along with boondock handles like Negrao (Big Nigger), Bexiginha (Pock Face), and Bichhv ho (Little Bug). When Brazilian rubber officials let them go unfed, the men broke away and foraged for themselves. Soon they were met at stopping-places by town police, who threw them into stockades until the journey continued...
Stocks of clothing are very low, will probably be completely sold out by the time better quality goods make their long-awaited appearance. Furniture departments had only a minimum stock of rock-hard springless chairs, couches and beds. One Detroit store ruthlessly cleaned out its entire line of cardboard toys, burned them as trash...
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