Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ninety-eight per cent of the new rubber the U. S. uses (grand total: 600,000 long tons in 1939) now comes from Malaya, Cochin China, the Dutch and British East Indies, other Far Eastern plantation areas...
...built pilot plants, and learned how to process Bolivian ore (which is high-cost, low-grade) with no admixture of Malayan. By last week it was pretty clear that, besides accumulating a 75,000-ton stockpile of smelted tin, the U. S. must be prepared (in case Britain and Malaya go under) to smelt Bolivian ore on a big scale...
...bounce in the rubber market came from the Japanese. In the smelly raw-rubber markets of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya, whence comes 87% of U. S. rubber, Japs have overbid U. S. importers for weeks. Dutch rubber exports to Japan for the first half of 1940 (12,278 tons) were around the largest in history, nearly double those of the first half...
...tons of tin it uses annually, the U. S. produces almost none, imports over 75% from the vulnerable Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya. Building a tin stockpile against emergency is one of the Defense Commission's most frantic concerns. Last week Oscar Bach offered his tin substitute to the War Department. He has also aroused interest in thrifty great A. & P. Tea Co. Besides containers for Army food, Bach foresaw another use for Bachited black iron: a building material easily adapted to prefabricated dwellings, barracks...
...needs a great deal of rubber-600,000 tons a year-for elastics, from fingerstalls to truck tires. Practically all (98%) of this rubber is lugged across 8,000 miles of Pacific Ocean from the Far East-British Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies, Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China. Japan, bent on wider control in East Asia, has long had its eye on these parts. And if the British fleet should be destroyed and the U. S. fleet sent into the Atlantic to guard against invasion from Europe, Japan might well be able to grab this Rubberland...