Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naples seemed carnival-gay as we sailed in, with bands playing, flags fluttering. The sun was blazing-luncheon was laid on deck. The bay looked like a poster of itself. For an hour or so we clattered around the town in a fiacre (Naples hasn't heard of rubber tires yet), stopping occasionally to drink coffee...
Buna-S, 20-30% longer wearing than natural rubber, is still four times as expensive. But U. S. technology may well bring it down to a competitive position...
...such specialty products as gaskets, fuel hoses, heavy-duty wire insulation, U. S. industry is already making synthetic rubbers. They cost more than natural rubber, but surpass it in resistance to oil, oxidation, sunlight, acids. Notable among them are Thiokol and Du Pont's neoprene. But none of them has been turned successfully into the finished product that uses 77% of U. S. rubber consumption-tires...
Outstanding ersatz tire rubber is Germany's Buna, which now shoes virtually all the Reich's motorcars and trucks, won combat spurs on cavalry cars and artillery prime movers in Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland...
...down. Standard has a real ace up its sleeve: both Buna-N and Buna-S can be made more cheaply from petroleum gases, a resource that Germany lacks. Last week the rubber industry was still rustling with rumors that the newly naturalized Buna family would shortly put Cousin "S" to work...