Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nashville, Tenn., an ardent prohibitionist wrote a letter of protest to his local editors last week, denouncing tires made out of alcoholic rubber...
...initial lot of 5,000,000 gas masks will be manufactured; presently facilities will permit the making of 2,500,000 masks a month. Procurement directives have been issued to the Quartermaster General for 100,000 sets of firemen's turnout coats and trousers, 108,000 pairs of rubber boots, 400,000 more helmets. The Surgeon General has been asked to buy medical supplies in millions of units; more than 200,000 beds and cots...
There was some good news on the rubber front last week: frantic experiments by Standard Oil (N.J.) to improve its famed butyl rubber process have finally produced a way to make much more butyl with the same plant capacity...
Although the appointment by President Roosevelt to a board of three in charge of the rubber situation was the second war position given to President James B. Conant, already working as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, his position in the University will remain unaffected. Deans John C. Baker and Paul H. Buck will fulfill his duties during his several months' absence in Washington...
President Conant's appointment to the rubber board, consisting of Bernard Baruch, chairman of the board, and Karl Compton, president of M. I. T., came on the heel of a White House veto of a bill authorizing the manufacture of synthetic rubber from grain alcohol. President Roosevelt established the committee in order to survey the needs and possibilities and make an early recommendation...