Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grim reminder came from WPB. Rubber, which had almost been forgotten in the uproar, might make the gasoline prob-lem academic. At the rate people had been riding around before gas rationing began, rubber was wearing out at the rate of 3½% a month. For the sake of rubber, if not for the sake of gas itself, the whole country is likely soon to face gas rationing. Like the East, it will probably grouse a bit and chisel a bit, for men do not like to have their habits forcibly changed. But in no other country in the world...
From Indo-China the Jap took a vital supply of rice and minerals; from Malaya, Java. Sumatra he got rubber; in Borneo he hastened repair of blown-up oil wells; from the Philippines and the erstwhile Dutch islands his diet was sweetened with sugar; from China he got cotton and high-grade bituminous coal. Japanese sources reported that in Java great Japanese banks (Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of Taiwan) were already exceedingly active. The Jap's New Order in Asia was potentially one of the richest economic units in the world; already the Japanese felt heady enough to discourage...
...will be streamlined into ladybug-like lumps. Using aluminum, magnesium, other featherweight metals, they will weigh 1,200 Ib. (v. 2,700 to 4,200 Ib. now). Aviation gas (100 octane) will power lightweight engines, mounted in the rear. Wheels will be smaller (13 in. and less) to save rubber, permit a lower center of gravity. Bodies will be of plastic, tops will be of transparent plastic such as is now used on bomber noses. Best feature of all: prices as low as $400 (if the dollar doesn't fall through the floor...
Goodby, Uncle Joe. It was the same with rubber. When Washington announced that there would be no new tires, it had softened the blow with quick talk of recaps. When it took away recaps, it talked about synthetics...
...bill was no joke. Said Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson: "There are a million tons of rubber on our highways now. That must be conserved. . . . Wasteful use of rubber will soon be a memory. The automobile petting parties will have to go. ... Our situation can become critical if the Sunday trips to see Uncle Joe are continued. I agree . . . that we must hold our tires as a public trust...