Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scotsman who has a place at Great Wigborough, Essex. Around three-year-old bomb craters in his fields strange plants had sprouted to a height of seven feet.* Canny Richard Mortimer examined the flora, reported: "The plant can be grown as easily as a common weed, and raw rubber will drip from it when it is cut. Samples of the plant were sent to a chemist. The report came back: 'pure latex.' Each plant yields between one and two ounces of latex; an acre would yield over two tons. The possibilities are stupendous. The center of the rubber...
...believed that Thompson-Whittier A,B,C, and D had fallen by the wayside, after we had given Mr. McNeill lists upon lists of all their reports, found ourselves face to face with the real thing on our last field trip. At that time, we discovered that the Hood Rubber Company is the origin of our last statistical headache--and they really use all those reports...
Besides aircraft, Goodyear is now making gas masks, rubber boats, life rafts, barrage balloons. Besides peace planes, Goodyear's postwar plans include: housing insulation, plastics, Airfoam (sponge rubber cushion), a radio static eliminator...
...October, the U.S. will be producing enough synthetic rubber (about 600,000 tons a year) to match the prewar U.S. consumption of natural rubber. But pleas ure drivers will probably get no new tires before spring 1944. Even then, synthetic rubber will take only about 85% as much road wear as natural rubber...
...Goodyear has more employes working on aircraft production today [blimps, Sikorsky fighters, sub-assemblies for other planes] than on rubber production." (Goodyear sales for the first six months of this year were more than double 1942; net income...