Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
...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...
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...