Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paradise lies to the west. Across the mountains there is a rolling country of bamboo, rubber plantations, tin mines: a country divided by a network of good roads, cut up by rice paddies, full of people and not beasts. It is washed by the quiet Malacca Strait, sheltered by the long Island of Sumatra...
Elaborating for the Ministry, gloomy, balding MEW Chief Dr. Hugh Dalton declared that Japan probably has resources of food for three years, of oil for at least 14 months, of rubber for a long, long time...
Target & Tactics. Japan hit Pearl Harbor in order to reduce the striking power of the U.S. Fleet beyond Manila. Japan wants the rich (oil, tin, rubber, etc.) Netherlands East Indies. But the path to the South China Sea is watched by many policemen. Headed southward, Japan will have to pass Manila, with its complement of bombers. She must risk a full-out attack on the Philippine defenses or bypass them...
...year's supply of rubber, a year-old munitions industry which was just beginning to produce, some severe metals shortages. It had an industrial capacity which-being the world's greatest-was far superior to the economy of Japan or any other Axis partner. But despite 18 months of trials and errors, that economy was still a long way from producing what the U.S. needed...
...Rubber. About 50% of U.S. rubber imports come from the British East, 40% from the Dutch Indies. Since January 1940 the U.S. has built its stocks more than 200% to some 600,000 tons which can be stretched to cover a year's needs. Synthetic production, now at the rate of 12,500 tons a year, may be stepped up to 100,000 tons within a year...