Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revealed that he and Jeffers had now even planned to tour the country arm in arm, inspecting rubber and high-octane plants...
Nelson to the Hill. But the main attack on Nelson came from Capitol Hill, where the Truman Committee had begun to delve into the rubber and 100-octane programs. When War Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson charged that the rubber program had caused a shortage of 100-octane gasoline for planes, and thus delayed all-out bombing of Germany, the public had thought he was after the Rubber Czar, Bull Bill Jeffers. But when the Truman Committee dug, they hardly noticed Jeffers; the real quarry turned out to be Nelson...
...James V. Forrestal, Navy Under Secretary, charged that the overriding priority which Nelson handed Jeffers to let him bull through 55% of the synthetic rubber program had cost the Navy 100 escort vessels. It had further jammed the production of valves and other parts essential to the Navy as well as to 100-octane and Navy programs. Jeffers was not to blame; Nelson never should have granted the priority in the first place...
...carrying almost as many passengers with only half their 434 pre-Pearl Harbor planes, by heavier loading and a daily average run for each plane of 1,100 miles. Trucks: 200,000 of the nation's 4,500,000 are already out of service (no manpower, no rubber, no business). Despite a 40% mileage cut (from 1941 levels) already ordered for this year, trucks are hauling 10% more tonnage from city to city "than the last available figure for the entire [prewar] fleet...
Getting to Work. Before the war, more than half U.S. passenger-car mileage was for business purposes. As gas and rubber supplies got short and employment soared, local transit business in Charleston, S.C. skyrocketed 622% last year; in Wilmington, N.C. 522%. War workers ride to & from Baltimore and Pittsburgh suburbs on wooden benches plunked into boxcars. Yet for 1943 only 3,000 new busses have been authorized, only 220 new trolleys...