Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is a sample of the sort of answers to complicated problems this fellow Rural has up his sleeve, why wouldn't it be a good idea to install him permanently in Washington? Perhaps the rubber, gasoline and inflation problems have simple answers too, if the right man starts after them...
...Synthetic rubber-the Buna processes, which are the foundation of the U.S. synthetic-rubber program, and Standard's butyl, developed from I.G.'s Vistanex. Asked Standard's Farish, "What do you think Hitler would give today to be able to keep America from using these discoveries and processes...
...story is history-the story of the three-man crew of a Navy plane who were forced down in the Pacific and spent 34 days on a rubber raft (TIME, March...
...counts most in this transformation is Harvard's tall, razor-keen, 49-year-old President James Bryant Conant. Last week he was even busier than his university. In Washington he spent most of the week conferring with fellow members of Franklin Roosevelt's three-man committee investigating rubber. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he helps direct U.S. scientists' search for new materials, new weapons...
...plastic to replace rubber in raincoats, golf balls, baby pants, footwear, gloves, hospital sheeting, garden-hose, electrical insulation and even gas masks was announced by Hercules Powder Co. last week. Such uses formerly consumed 60,000 tons of rubber a year. The new plastic is a soft form of ethyl cellulose, made of cotton linters or wood pulp and grain alcohol. It is as pliable, flexible, nonporous and durable as rubber, but is not so elastic or resilient, and tears more easily. Hence it is not good for tires or tubes. But it is flameproof and does not lose...