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Lettuce-growing, ballyhoo-loving Salinas, Calif, was bursting with civic pride last week: homegrown, natural rubber in small but commercial quantities was bouncing from its Government-owned guayule-processing mill. Pounding, chopping and sloshing away night & day at mounds of tough, dry guayule shrubs harvested and baled in the fields...
Within about three months the Salinas mill will have ground its way through all the guayule now available (it takes two to three years to grow to commercial size). But if the Government's growing program in the Southwest pans out, there will be enough to produce 21,000...
By that time the synthetic rubber program should also be going full blast. That will make guayule production look like peanuts. But unless synthetic tire technology improves enormously between now and next year, every pound of guayule will still be badly needed, because it still takes some natural rubber to...
Some of the men were not in uniform: they were in the cap & gown of high-school graduation; they were out hunting with leather jacket and a bird dog at their feet; or they sat stiffly with hair slicked back and smile a little strained, for a portrait that was...
In the Islands, as in the U.S., hundreds of cities and villages mourned their men. Virtually all of the 2,300 of the New Mexico National Guard had been in the Philippines. Mothers and wives met from Deming to Rosewell to Santa Fe, still hoped their coast artillerymen were on...