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...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...
Game in Finland. "Applied to Finland, this meant keeping her in the war as long as possible, making plans to provoke civil war when Finnish arms collapse, securing maximum publicity in Finland and the Allied world for Finnish heroism contrasted with crude Russian vindictiveness and barbarism...
...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...
...first night." Some Britons and propagandists still bravely belittled the "buzz-bombs." But the world's scientists were not taking them so lightly. None asserted that the new weapon would seriously affect the outcome of World War II, but many regarded the buzz-bombing of England as a crude preview of World...