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...tire industry told WPB that with only 4,500 tons of crude (less than 1% of the remaining U.S. stockpile) and 234,000 tons of reclaim (about one-third of U.S. two-year capacity) it can recap enough old tires, make enough new ones of reclaimed rubber to meet the irreducible minimum-replacement demand to keep all present cars on the road. But the press underplayed the industry's quid pro quo for the miracle: To achieve it, said the tiremen, every car, truck and bus in the U.S. will have to cut its usual mileage an average...
Sometimes this reclaimed solid crude is further reduced to a liquid latex. It is kneaded in water with a soapy "dispersing agent" until the rubber molecules lose their attraction for each other and disperse to form an even suspension in the water. From such latexlike dispersions are made heavy, industrial rubber gloves and other dipped articles, as well as rubberized fabrics like raincoats...
Yield of rubber from different articles varies greatly: 100 lb. of crude can be reclaimed from 140 lb. of inner tubing, 165 lb. of bathing caps and shoes, or 175 lb. of hot-water bags. Some 94 tons of rubber gloves can yield the 75 tons of crude used in building a large warship. Five old overshoes are enough for one Army raincoat...
...figured the sources of United Nations' supply for 1942 as: 706,000 long tons in the U.S. stockpile of which the President spoke; 453,000 tons of new crude (less losses from sinkings); 28,000 tons of synthetic production in the U.S.; 54,000 tons of synthetic in Russia. Total stores: 1,241,000 tons...
Stop-gap arrangements were being hurried. The White House approved the building of wooden barges to carry crude oil on inland waterways from Florida. A House committee approved a bill for a pipeline from Florida's west coast to Jacksonville, another for improvement of a Florida barge canal. Harold Ickes announced that a beginning had been made on relocation of two existing pipelines, which would send an additional 25,000 barrels daily to the East by July 15. But real relief would be a major transportation operation-and that...