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Manufacturers of tennis balls have already experimented with a combination of crude and reclaimed rubber, produced a ball that approximates the standard specifications even in resiliency (a 53-to-58-inch bounce from a 100-inch drop on to concrete). Now, if the War Production Board will permit them to use the crude rubber they have on hand and grant them 30 additional tons, tennis can do its share in the national keep-fit program-even with the 3,000,000 additional tennis bugs U.S.L.T.A. hopes to attract with arc-light tennis this summer...
Akron's civilian tire & tube business for 1942 was cut 100% by OPM; its other consumer products were cut 75% by WPB last week. It can no longer (after Feb. 1) use crude rubber in brassiéres, bathing suits, belts, golf balls, hundreds of other peacetime goods. Yet Akron is booming...
Used in industry or war work, the bulk of such items will be made from crude rubber. But civilian products must be made largely from reclaimed rubber, ordinarily bypassed by manufacturers because it wears out faster than natural rubber. Now Akron grabs all the reclaimed it can get. Its 1942 goal: 360,000 tons...
VICHY--Two hundred of the most prominent American expatriates in Paris have been seized by the Germans and carried off to crude wooden barracks in the Compiegne Forest to be held as hostages for the good treatment of German nationals in the United States, it was learned tonight...
...recalled that the proud Field Marshal's troops, after taking Kiev and Kharkov, had been roughly handled in the Russian counteroffensive. It was also recalled that the aristocratic Field Marshal had long regarded Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler as a crude, lower-middle-class upstart. In Czecho-Slovakia, when the Field Marshal tried to take over a hotel for his staff from Heinrich Himmler, the Gestapo Chief, refusing, declared: "Some day I'll settle up with...