Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the gunner in a Flying Fortress, they may look out through a transparent plastic top. Car bodies may be of plastic panels, tougher than steel. Tires, smaller than now, may be made of synthetic rubber. With better weight-to-horsepower ratio, with zoo-octane (instead of 74) gas in the tank, post-war cars are likely to get more miles to the gallon. Best news of all: there is a good chance they will be cheaper, perhaps as cheap as $300 (1942 value...
Biggest newspaper problem of the moment, however, is ODT's order, effective June 1, that newspapers limit local deliveries to one a day, in order to save rubber and gasoline. In big cities, where newsstands account for a majority of circulation, publishers have complained that one edition a day would ruin them. They suggest pooling trucks, abolishing "returns," printing fewer editions but more than one. They claim their plan would' save more mileage than the Government...
...York Daily News made capital of curtailment on deliveries. In nearly two pages of text and pictures it gloated over newly acquired horses and wagons ("seventy oat-burners and their equipage, rubberless and gasless from nose to tail-board"). The News has frequently growsed about the ineptitudes of rubber and gas rationing. But last week the horse-&-buggy News was almost good humored. Said Driver John Pisano: "A newspaper delivery horse learns the turns and stops, and the driver just pitches the bundles...
...maximum steel capacity of the U.S. (which has 50% of the whole world's capacity). Of the 117%, 67% is earmarked for Army, Navy, Maritime Commission and Lend-Lease; 14% for essential industries such as farm equipment and the railroads; 18% for new plants to make aluminum, rubber, etc.; 18% for other uses rated A-10 or better...
...Rubber used to grow on trees (Hevea brasiliensis): now it flowers in the imagination of would-be inventors all over the U.S. They cook strange messes on the kitchen stove, squeeze out plant juices in home laboratories, and set out for Washington bearing black or tawny samples. Last week's arrival was Dr. Glenn L. Casto, dentist of Spencer...