Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From British Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies the U. S. gets 85.9% of its crude rubber (plus 4.5% from French Indo-China...
must have rubber and tin, has nowhere else to go for the amount it needs, has failed to lay in stockpiles. If Japan takes The Indies, the supply might still be open to the U. S. on Japan's terms. Basis for this hope is: 1) Japan's desperate need of foreign exchange, which has always come largely from trade with the U. S.; 2) Japan's mortal fear of a war with...
...which the U. S. might have to fight, willy-nilly, if its rubber-&-tin lifeline were actually cut. Nobody would dislike that war more than the Japanese officers under genial Vice Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto; they have a great liking and respect for the U. S. Navy...
...Strategic materials to burn. The Allies controlled about one-quarter of the world's copper, more than half its rubber, about 40% of its tin, one-third its zinc, practically all its nickel...
Meanwhile, also, U. S. Rubber Co. announced a new kind of airplane armor plate (for pilot seats, bombardier and gunner protection, etc.). Its materials: steel and rubber. Its merit, according...