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...entire program-now cut back to the 850,000 tons where it was before the Baruch report raised the sights-30% is completed and the rest is due to come in by year...
...Preliminaries. That the rubber program has come this far is mainly due to the doggedness of Big Bill Jeffers. But that synthetic rubber, an incredibly complex chemical, is today a reality is due to the fact that other men were toiling on rubber long before the Baruch report made U.S. motorists realize the rubber crisis. The experts compressed ten years of normal development into two, created gigantic, intricate plants with almost nothing to go on except small-scale laboratory experiments. This was almost like building a Flying Fortress out of the experience of flying a kite...
...there were scores of others, in industry and in the Government, who anonymously got things going when bigwigs were not much help. The first butadiene and synthetic rubber in the new program was produced in May 1942. Within the month 250,000 tons of annual capacity, all pre-Baruch in origin, will be in production...
...Somervell's speech actually was that WPB had failed and was still failing. This was the point of many Washington developments throughout the week. And every one of the developments was a direct blow to Donald Marr Nelson, the fumbling, ineffectual WPBoss who had more power than Bernard Baruch had in World War I but who either didn't use it or didn't know...
...Bernard Baruch, I think, who said in the last war: 'The maw of war is insatiable.' It is even truer today...