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...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...
...rubber industry rises and falls with automobile sales and the price of crude rubber. Two years ago most of the companies were sagging under heavy inventories; currently, the tire inventory position is the lowest in four years and revival of the automobile industry gives rubbermen reason to anticipate an excellent year. But though tire and tube sales are the industry's mainstay, providing 65% of total volume, the most significant fact about rubber today is its technological progress. At the threshold of its second 100 years, the industry is bubbling over with new ideas, new products...
...rubbermen created the International Rubber Regulation Committee- a cartel that represents 98% of the world's rubber producers. The I. R. R. C.'s aims are two:1) to establish and maintain a base limit to rubber planting, 2) to fix quarterly quotas on the amount of this rubber that is marketable...
...Brettenham House, he speaks only when spoken to. last week, entitled to speak only when spoken to, was President Albert L. Viles of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, which is the nearest thing to a trade "institute" individualistic U. S. rubbermen will tolerate. Had he been asked, Mr. Viles would have told the committee that U. S. rubber consumption was currently running 16% ahead of last year while rubber stocks on hand have dipped below the 200,000-ton mark for the first time since 1930. At the end of last year each of the Big Four U. S. rubber companies...