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Against disruption of its rubber supply, best U. S. hedge is reclaimed rubber, which last year furnished 32% of the rubber used in manufacture, could furnish more in a pinch. But with a reduced or interrupted supply of new crude, reclamation would gradually dwindle away. For new supply, the U. S. has little more than a start. U. S.-owned plantations in Latin America are still on an experimental scale, retarded in growth by inadequate labor, poor transportation and the reliance of the U. S. on sources across the Pacific. Rubber-growing in the Philippines, Florida and California is still...
...things in particular accounted for the brimming gasoline tanks. With Germany out of the market, with French and English car-owners rationed to spoonfuls, World War II, after the first flurry, had reduced U. S. crude and refined petroleum exports by some 20%. Still more potent was a prolonged U. S. winter which had unexpectedly boomed the demand for fuel oil by 28% over the year before. Result: running crude through the stills to get oil for heating, refiners as a by-product ran up millions of gallons of gasoline...
...Army & Navy Munitions Board would have one less strategic material to worry about if U. S. industry could manufacture a cheap and reliable substitute for rubber. For 97% of the U. S.'s crude rubber (1939 imports 497,212 long tons) comes over 10,000 miles of sea from the Middle East, where commerce raiders might romp in wartime...
...last month, a tough gang of greasy longshoremen looked expectantly out to sea. Over five months had elapsed since Joseph Stalin agreed to send Russian oil to help Adolf Hitler win his war, and just about to come snailing into Constantsa at last was the first load of Soviet crude for the Nazis...
...Sakhaline, bung full with 70,000 barrels of crude from the Caucasus, and three more Soviet tankers tagged in her wake. Often before Constantsa dock hands had cheered the arrival of ships from the "Toilers' Fatherland," fraternized in waterfront dives with Soviet sailors. This reception of the Sakhaline was the warmest ever-but different. Shaking their fists, the longshoremen bellowed at the crew to haul down the Soviet flag. "Since Russia attacked Finland, the workers of Rumania know that 'Democracy' is used by the Soviets only as a catch word!" explained the longshoremen's leader...