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...have in Nicaragua rubber plantations, but some rubber is exported from wild trees and more could be had if price justified. Recently I offered crude rubber to an American firm in New York and they promptly answered: "If the quantity is not large enough we are not interested, as import permit is required now from the Government and there is quite a lot of red tape with so many forms and papers to fill." Another firm of Los Angeles, Calif, wrote recently:. "We cannot ship lavatories nor any other sanitary goods as we are unable to obtain allocation...
...machine-gun trunnion block, on which the gun swivels. When it is forged, i.e.., pounded, into rough shape out of a hot chunk of steel, it weighs 20 lb. In machining the block into shape, 14 lb. of steel is drilled, planed and ground away before the crude lump becomes a finished 6-lb. trunnion block...
Mexico can afford to sell new tires in order to lure tourists. Enough crude rubber is stored in Mexican tire factories to keep them running as usual through 1942. Made of guayule rubber, with small amounts of Brazilian crude, these tires are the same kind the U.S. may eventually get. But even the best of them-General Popo, Goodrich Euzcadi-are none too good. Said an amiable Mexican: "They don't wear as long-but then, you don't pay as much for them...
...blue peter fluttered from yardarms at sunny San Diego and Houston, at blustery Halifax, at hot Aruba and Bahrein. The tanker fleets of the United Nations were busy. Even if the Dutch East Indies were lost, the Allies would still control 93% of the world's crude-oil production, 88% of refining facilities, almost 90% of tanker tonnage...
...warmed up (not cooked again), it is best served, of course, as sauces, soups, pie fillings, etc. Food powders make good mashed potatoes-far better than the dark, gooey "shoeblack" potatoes dehydrated for the U.S. Army in World War I by some 15 processors, few of whom, with their crude techniques, survived the peace.* Though Army quartermasters are not keen about some of today's dried foods, they promise the chafing industry large orders as soon as a few improvements are made...