Word: rubbermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rubber shortage was terrible (despite Mr. Jones's grandiose plans), somebody else discovered another rubber source-guayule-dandelions -unpronounceable Polish and Russian weeds and inventors-new technological discoveries. Each "discovery" had some political wheelhorse to trundle it; each one had just enough "maybe" in it to scare Government rubbermen into another paralyzed pause...
...final perfection of synthetic rubber, thoughtful rubbermen admit, will demand a further outlay of at least $30,000,000 for scientific research alone. And because this research would probably make present techniques obsolete, they are-unless Japan's blockade becomes morbidly effective-in no hurry to make a premature, war-inspired effort to capture natural rubber's markets...
...compete with neoprene. etc. in the specialty trade and to replace German imports of Buna-N (some 340.000 Ib. in 1938), now cut off by war. But Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) also has U. S. rights for the manufacture of tire-Buna (Buna-S) and U. S. rubbermen hope for eventual independence from a tree-grown, seaborne, cartel-priced raw material...