Word: buna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rocket ball"-a buna-S core instead of last year's apathetic balata-may enliven hitting. A Cleveland Indian who last season batted .222 tried the ball at the Lafayette, Ind. training camp last week, promptly hit a home run. "If the cover was any tighter," reported Manager Lou Boudreau, "it would be a golf ball...
...Buna campaign a scout, returning to his unit, was asked what he had seen. "Two whorehouses and a pub," he whispered. Shaking with silent laughter (the enemy was so close they could not laugh out loud), his comrades "began to squirm forward to attack the three pillboxes their scout had so engagingly described...
...Germans formed two corporations for a continent-wide exploitation of the fast-growing herb. They transplanted kok-sagyz to Germany, Denmark, Finland, Poland, the Balkans. Best results were obtained along the Danube. Now that blockaders are sinking more & more rubber-runners from Japan, and bombers are drastically cutting buna-S production at home, kok-sagyz from Russia is paying off for the Nazis...
...Alcohol. The famed Baruch rubber report handed oilmen the big job of butadiene production for Buna S (75% butadiene plus 25% styrene equals Buna S.) Oilmen were to turn out 65% of all U.S. butadiene production. The remainder was to come from the alcohol process, which was loudly damned as a farm-bloc plot to use up surplus grain...
...fantastically difficult in a skyscraper-size plant. Butyl production is still negligible. The U.S. can still use Du Pont's neoprene (production: 49,000 tons yearly) for tubes. But the military long ago grabbed the lion's share of that. This left, as the only tube alternative, Buna S, mixed with the priceless crude rubber from the shrinking stockpile. On this basis the U.S. can afford few tubes...