Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wooden Heels. Rubber heels made with maplewood cores for 150 million men's and boys' shoes will save 5,000 tons of rubber annually, estimated B. F. Goodrich...
...tons of shipping, drew 60% of their supplies from France, Scandinavia and Spain. They threw their 100% largely at Germany on the Western Front. This time the Allies have only about 3,000,000 tons afloat. But the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available are in the hands of the enemy. So are the resources and shipping of Scandinavia and, for practical purposes, of Spain. Moreover, the requirements in mechanized tools of war, model 1942, have shot up until supply is a fearsomely different art from the supply...
...spray gun is a fist-fitting gadget which trails three rubber hoses and a ⅛-in. wire-the charge. Two of the hoses feed acetylene and oxygen (as in welding) to a 6,300° F. flame, melting the wire. From the third hose, compressed air blows the hot-metal droplets in a molten mist that coats a surface with a smooth film as tough as a weld...
...Germans, of course, have almost no petroleum. But neither (relatively speaking) has the U.S. Any day now-perhaps in only 15 years-the last U.S. oil wells will begin to gurgle, gasp and dry up. And, said the Bureau of Mines last week, look at synthetic rubber: we all wish serious work on that had begun before last Dec 7. Look also at Alaska: it has lots of coal and no oil,* and perhaps gasoline can be made on the spot cheaper than it can be hauled in by tanker (though Alaska's chief ports are no farther from...
...finally made a move last week toward its forgotten treasure-trove of a million-plus tons of scrap rubber (TIME, June 8). It even made a gesture toward putting the profit motive to work on the rubber shortage, by letting scrap dealers make a little money bringing in the scrap...