Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unhappy War Department pointed out that the cuspidor mats were to be used in hospitals, had been ordered as a routine refill by the San Antonio Quartermaster Depot. They were to be made of reclaimed rubber in combination with alloys, would not require more than 750 lb. even of reclaimed material. Furthermore, said the War Department, the San Antonio Depot had no authority to award contracts, had simply asked for bids. Somebody in Washington (the Department wasn't quite sure who) would certainly have vetoed any contract calling for rubber. So there...
Akron's civilian tire & tube business for 1942 was cut 100% by OPM; its other consumer products were cut 75% by WPB last week. It can no longer (after Feb. 1) use crude rubber in brassiéres, bathing suits, belts, golf balls, hundreds of other peacetime goods. Yet Akron is booming...
January sales of the Big Four rubber companies (Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S.) were at record or near-record levels. Firestone shareholders were dazed by their chairman's glowing descriptions of ten new plants and additions. General Tire & Rubber, reporting a 61% increase in 1941 sales, told its stockholders "there is no occasion for fear and panic...
...rush started in December, when all plants put truck & bus tire output on a 168-hour week basis. Now Akron is setting production records on airplane tires, tank tracks, barrage balloons, bulletproof gas tanks, life rafts, gas masks, thousands of other wartime rubber items. Because the biggest bomber tire uses more rubber than 60 passenger-car tires and the tracks of a medium tank use almost a ton, Akron is "chewing" rubber at a record rate. December consumption was 60-70,000 tons, highest December ever and enough to use up the entire U.S. stockpile (Jesse Jones's figure...
...rubber industry's war work is rubber. Biggest surprise is Firestone's $20,000,000 order for 40-mm. Bofors anti-aircraft gun mounts and carriages. Weeks ahead on this contract, Firestone is also turning out machine-gun clips, other metal war goods. Goodyear is making sub-assemblies for Martin bombers. Goodrich makes fuel tanks and operates a $35,000,000 ordnance plant in Texas. U.S. Rubber makes zippers ("Kwik") for uniforms and operates an $86,000,000 arms plant in Iowa...