Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtailment of guayule culture strikes the best source of natural U.S. rubber, capable of producing 400 Ib. an acre a year. There is no current hope for rubber from any of the thousands of other rubber-bearing plants that have been studied. Cornell's Dr. Lewis Knudson has tried some 30 himself, says "No native plant can be recommended at present as a source of rubber." Swamp milkweed may yield 45 Ib. an acre; golden rod, 75 Ib.; Indian hemp not more than 25 Ib. The Russian dandelion (kok-sagyz), seeds of which were rushed to the U.S. from...
...older institution within the Department of Labor, is composed of representatives of the Army, Navy, Maritime Commission and the A.F. of L. building trades. In theory it is subject to the War Labor Board. In fact it puts new wage rates into effect-then asks Mr. Davis for a rubber-stamp approval...
...great races in U.S. industrial history ended last week. Both Firestone Tire and U.S. Rubber began to turn out synthetic rubber-the first produced under the Government's original 1,000,000-ton program. Who won the race nobody knows. Firestone claimed that its Baton Rouge, La. plant (capacity, 30,000 tons using petroleum-butadiene) had produced the fat, brownish synthetic rubber "loaves" 24 hours before its rival. U.S. Rubber claimed the pennant for its plant at Institute, W. Va., largest single unit in the world (capacity, 90,000 tons using alcohol-butadiene). Experts hinted that the U.S. Rubber...
...whole, the race was unimportant. Big point was that the long and bitter fight over synthetic seemed to be over-the U.S. was rolling on the highway that led to enough rubber. The two plants which opened last week will produce, by themselves, three times Brazil's natural rubber output. Other plants scheduled for 1943 opening will boost this year's total production to about 250,000 tons, within respectable distance...
Success Means the Ash Can. But that 175,000-ton gap might make the difference between success and defeat. Unless every U.S. citizen conserves his tires, unless the Army & Navy cut their needs to the rim, the nation's rubber reserves may be nonexistent by Christmas. Said Rubber Czar William Jeffers: "The country is not yet out of the critical stage." But Rubberman Jeffers, no crier of "Wolf! Wolf!," was optimistic, gaily predicted that U.S. factories would be producing 850,000 tons of synthetic a year within a twelvemonth-more than enough for all military needs...