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...unique job, a terrible job, a job that would frighten almost any man. In no other country does one man carry so many back-breaking duties on his shoulders. Only snow-haired Bernard Mannes Baruch, now a frequent Byrnes visitor, ever had comparable responsibility in the U.S. when he was head of the War Industries Board in World War I-and the strain on him had not yet become unbearable by the time the war ended...
...Mexico. Sam Rayburn, the House speaker, who comes from Texas, urged "further study" although Bernard Baruch's rubber report, giving a choice of discomfort or defeat, was only ten weeks old. Some Texans drove across the Mexican boundary, registered their cars there, paid about $180 in duties, got Mexican tires and gas. Californians feared rationing would mean a traffic holocaust, especially in spread-out Los Angeles; they freely used words like panic, riot to describe their fears of what rationing might bring...
...synthetic rubber begins to look real in the U.S. Last week two American Chemical Society journals celebrated its birth by a presentation of the technical factors involved in the new industry. Forgotten now are the pains of the prenatal period (TIME, July 20) and the desperate remedies of the Baruch Committee (TIME, Sept. 21). More than a million tons of good synthetic rubber are in sight...
...clear plastic when polymerized by itself. Combined with butadiene in Buna-S, the product is high in tensile strength and resistant to abrasion. In some tests it has proved distinctly superior to natural rubber in wearing qualities. (Some Buna-S truck tires have lasted over 50,000 miles.) The Baruch plan calls for an annual production of 845,000 tons, primarily for tires...
...formulas of the others have not been published. All are highly resistant to oil and are used for oil hose, gasoline hose and gaskets. Hycar makes an excellent ebonite, or hard rubber, when vulcanized. Ameripol is featured for tires by Goodrich. None of these is included in the Baruch program; they are in production without emergency Government financing...