Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither war orders nor Government restrictions have pushed civilian rubber goods completely off production lines. Because U.S. homes, factories and automobiles would be crippled without them, the industry is making over 20 million V belts (to run factory motors, refrigerators, oil burners, auto fans, etc.), millions of feet of garden hose (for civilian defense), 40 million feet of fire hose (two years' normal sales...
Used in industry or war work, the bulk of such items will be made from crude rubber. But civilian products must be made largely from reclaimed rubber, ordinarily bypassed by manufacturers because it wears out faster than natural rubber. Now Akron grabs all the reclaimed it can get. Its 1942 goal: 360,000 tons...
...orders, once new rubber from the East is cut off and the U.S. stock pile is gone, Akron must look chiefly to synthetic. Jesse Jones's belated $400,000,000 program (TIME, Jan. 26), which promises a 400,000-ton rate of output by mid-1943, faces many a production hurdle; most big rubber companies are old hands at synthetics, but not in any such volume as that. If Akron's current rate of consumption continues, the end of imports and the beginning of self-sufficiency may be separated by a serious...
...synthetic rubber supplies may be stretched from two to five times by generous admixture of lignin, a gummy byproduct of the paper industry...
...resins. But today they have a still greater advantage-they require as little as 2 or 3% phenol (carbolic acid), a chief component of the commonest plastics and now a badly needed, priorities-listed ingredient. Furthermore, lignin molding powders can be mixed to "extend" phenol plastics by 100%, synthetic rubber for many uses by 100 to 500%. This aspect of lignin was last week under intensive study by the U.S. Army & Navy...