Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Brazil was watching these Japanese settlers with more than usual suspicion. In recent weeks there had been an epidemic of fires in the Amazon rubber regions, enough to cause Governor Alvaro Maia of Amazonas State to make a trip to the Purús Valley district to investigate. The first fires were caused by settlers burning brush and seemed purely accidental; Brazilians and Japanese together put them out. But from then on the conflagrations grew in number and seriousness. Recently fires broke out in the highland regions of the western rivers, where some of Brazil's best...
...field. That invasion has now borne fruit. Most important wartime petroleum by-product is toluene, the basis of TNT (trinitrotoluene) which the industry now provides at many times the scale of World War I when it was derived from coal. Another critical petroleum derivative is butadiene, basis for synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 30). Vital to the war, derivates of petroleum may be equally important in the post-war era. Just as research in coal by-products gave birth after World War I to a whole new series of peacetime industries-plastics, solvents, lacquers, synthetic fabrics-so the cheap plentiful toluene...
...already running below shipments at the end of 1942-though the backlog is still huge. Last week the Wall Street Journal estimated that total new construction of plants and houses may fall off as much as 50% during 1943. Notable exceptions to the no-more-new-plant decision: synthetic rubber (already dangerously behind schedule) and aviation gasoline...
...delivered last week by two FCC commissioners, raised again an important question of public policy for radio. It was a by-product of the approval by FCC as a whole of the sale of New England's biggest radio chain, the 21-station Yankee Network, to General Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron...
...Kaiser had barely seen his steel dream fulfilled before he was dreaming new dreams. At his star-spangled blowing-in ceremony he told his guests that Fontana was still "just a seed": he wants to surround his steel mill with synthetic rubber plants, plastics production, etc. to round out a Kaiser empire that already embraces cement, magnesium, shipbuilding...