Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already sharply changed the lives of 8,500,000 motorists and the uncounted millions who rode with them. After July 1 the meager rations would probably be made more meager. And some time after July 1 the entire nation would go on rations. The reason was one word: rubber...
...when the U.S. was wasting steel on race tracks, tricycles and asparagus tongs, the East would now have much more gas for driving and ample oil for home heating. But perhaps it was not a tragedy after all, because without gas the U.S. could not burn up its precious rubber so speedily...
...Means Rubber. Rubber was inexpressibly precious. Citizens racked their brains for makeshifts: in New Jersey, Postman Charles Kaiser used dime-store shoe soles as recaps, got 1,200 miles from them (see cut). The Army had already begun shifting from rubber tank treads to steel treads, which are not as good, but replaceable. Drastic steps were necessary, and would certainly be invoked-such as commandeering tire stockpiles, the requisition of civilian cars, a further abandonment of duplicating bus lines...
...loss of the Dutch East Indies and the threat to Ceylon have forced the U.S. to cross more than 100,000 tons off its list of hoped-for raw rubber...
...Russia needs enormous new rubber supplies, and the U.S. stockpile (500,000 tons) is the only substantial hoard upon which the United Nations can draw...