Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt last week let a wishful cat out of a hypothetical bag. Said the President casually, in answer to a question at his press conference: he was not excited about tires; things would work out; already under study were two or three tire substitutes which did not require rubber; if they would just permit a man to drive 30 miles an hour, he could get to work and back...
...words were a bombshell of hope. From coast to coast newspapers broke out the big type: HOPE HELD FOR CIVILIAN TIRES SOON; PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC OVER TIRES ; RUBBERLESS TIRE NEAR, SAYS F.D.R.; PRESIDENT TAKES ISSUE WITH OWN WAR-AGENCY HEADS ON RUBBER CRISIS...
...publicity man burst into a War Production Board meeting to give Donald Nelson the news that, just when Nelson had finally succeeded in killing all civilian hopes for rubber, the President had resurrected them. Unbelieving Donald Nelson called the White House, learned that the President had indeed uttered the roseate words. Quickly Nelson called a press conference of his own. There he tried, without flatly contradicting his chief, to puncture the fond new hope. But good news travels faster than bad; many a citizen still believed, at week's end, that his present well-worn tires were...
Half of the 4,750,000 trucks on U.S. highways will be forced out of service before the end of 1943, for lack of rubber. Such was the terrifying gospel brought to the American Trucking Association's convention in Chicago last week. WPB announced that by 1943's end there would be no synthetic for civilian use. The U.S. trucking industry cannot last into 1944 without a miracle...
...Lease will get a share of those. Only hope for trucks is to make their present equipment last. Said ODT's Joe Eastman last week: "In some way and somehow, we must keep these vehicles in service for essential purposes for the duration . . . and protect and preserve the rubber tires on hand, which constitute the most precious stockpile that our country possesses...