Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allotment of synthetic rubber previously scheduled for civilian tires in the next five months has been halved...
...Rubber Boss Bradley Dewey slapped a ban on the use of synthetic rubber in many a civilian item, even nipped plans for girdle manufacture...
What did these straws mean? The answer lay in the suddenly scary realities of rubber production. The rubber program was in trouble, all across the board. U.S. rubber production was choked by a brand-new row of bottlenecks, and beset by production "bugs...
...Alcohol. The famed Baruch rubber report handed oilmen the big job of butadiene production for Buna S (75% butadiene plus 25% styrene equals Buna S.) Oilmen were to turn out 65% of all U.S. butadiene production. The remainder was to come from the alcohol process, which was loudly damned as a farm-bloc plot to use up surplus grain...
Plenty of Kinks. But the petroleum process is not pulling its weight. The plants are from six to nine months behind construction schedule, are still only 85% completed. The flow of butadiene from them is discouragingly small. Oilmen wrathfully blame the delay on ex-Rubber Boss Jeffers, who gave the alcohol-processing plants a long head start by handing out super-duper priorities to all of them. The oilmen got what was left...