Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico. Sam Rayburn, the House speaker, who comes from Texas, urged "further study" although Bernard Baruch's rubber report, giving a choice of discomfort or defeat, was only ten weeks old. Some Texans drove across the Mexican boundary, registered their cars there, paid about $180 in duties, got Mexican tires and gas. Californians feared rationing would mean a traffic holocaust, especially in spread-out Los Angeles; they freely used words like panic, riot to describe their fears of what rationing might bring...
...Rubber Administrator William Jeffers picked up his ruler to rap the nation's knuckles: "There is a good deal of organized opposition in various quarters-the funds for which are being furnished by people who should know better-protesting the application of gas rationing. I don't question their motive. They just don't understand. The period from now until we can start to allocate substantial quantities of synthetic rubber for civilian use, which will be many months, must be bridged by saving rubber through gasoline rationing. The alternative is a possible collapse of transportation which would...
...prices crossed 100, indicating that the U.S. price level is back to its 1926 level. But not even Washington could claim to have planned it that way. All during the '30s when the Government was trying to push prices up via the Dr. George F. Warren sponsored commodity "rubber" dollar, and other devices, they stubbornly refused to go up to the 1926 goal. Now, when the Government is trying to hold prices down, they went up all too readily...
With two big butadiene plants almost completed (at Baton Rouge and at Charleston, W.Va.), 22 others to be ready for production between now and next July, synthetic rubber begins to look real in the U.S. Last week two American Chemical Society journals celebrated its birth by a presentation of the technical factors involved in the new industry. Forgotten now are the pains of the prenatal period (TIME, July 20) and the desperate remedies of the Baruch Committee (TIME, Sept. 21). More than a million tons of good synthetic rubber are in sight...
There are a dozen varieties. At least four-neoprene, butyl, Koroseal and Thiokol-are wholly American products. Each of the synthetics is superior to natural rubber in at least one respect and for at least one use. Yet none claims to be perfect. Each will improve with further research, and ought to supersede natural rubber in its special field. Rubber itself may never regain its pre-war place, may join natural dyes, lacquers, resins, and perhaps silk in limbo...