Word: crude
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the East. Myitkyina was the easternmost end of the road to China. Already from Yunnan province another road was being freed to complete the route. Chinese forces who held that stretch had crossed the Salween River and last week were fighting for the road town of Tengyueh. With crude ladders they scaled the ancient walls built in Marco Polo's day, turned modern flamethrowers on the Japanese defenders. At week's end they had occupied the inner defenses. Between Tengyueh and Myitkyina there were no Japs...
...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...
...September 1942 the U.S. was nearly 100% dependent on crude rubber imports; now the U.S. needs only 14% crude rubber, and gets it from a 100,000-ton stockpile imported from Liberia, India, the Amazon and other small-producing areas...
Rubbermen do not believe that synthetic will entirely replace natural rubber-the postwar market will be big enough for both. At least two or three years, probably much longer, may be needed to get Malayan and East Indian plantations back into normal production. Then, even if crude is cheaper than synthetic-say as low as 10½ a pound as against the present Buna S minimum of 14?-competition will still be a minor point because of the potentially enormous demand...
...only departures from the conventional among early U.S. battle paintings were those made by American Indians, depicting frontier skirmishes. One, painted by Sitting Bull, was a crude impression of a fierce struggle in which a white man in top hat and tail coat was spitted by an arrow, shed buckets of blood...