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...husky Kentuckian said to me yesterday: "I'm getting concerned about the future of this country. And I'm worrying because I'm not doing anything about it. I've been telling myself to pick up rubber around the house or to gather up the scrap metal I know is around my place, but I don't do it. And the folks around me aren't doing much either. But damn it, a man doesn't know which way to turn...
...Elliot E. Simpson, counsel for the House committee investigating the rubber situation, the pity of it all is that somewhere in the U.S. there are 10 million tons of finished rubber goods and scrap rubber, much of which could be turned...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York gave up tennis for the duration, added his tennis shoes to the family's scrap-rubber contribution. Also surrendered: the gubernatorial mansion's front door mat, a tire, a length of hose, galoshes, Mrs. Lehman's rain cape...
...music camps. They realized that there is no better way to make life run smoothly within the tight social set-up of the army and navy than by providing opportunities for hearing and making music. Their scheme is to make new, free records for the army out of the scrap materials collected in a nation-wide salvage drive. The organization has already been officially recognized by Roosevelt's Committee on War Relief Agencies, and plans to start collecting on July 17. You don't have to send your old records anywhere, or even cart them to Briggs and Briggs...
...rubber-reclaiming plants the scrap is first sheared and hashed into tiny pieces.It is then sifted past magnets, which draw out any bits of iron. Next it is dumped into a "digester" tank where 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) is added to destroy all cloth fibers and to remove free sulfur (added originally in vulcanizing); 2) coal-tar oils are added to soften the rubber. These added chemicals and decomposed fibers are rinsed out in water sprays and settling tanks. At last the rubber is squeezed into heavy sheets and baled for reprocessing...