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Enough . . . Enough. "But there is one unknown factor in this problem," said Mr. Roosevelt cheerfully. The unknown was rubber scrap. How much rubber scrap is there in the country? The President, with the help of all the citizens and the 400,000 filling-station operators, proposed to find...
...same little Jap, Douglas. Aircraft Co.'s gargoyle-like cartoon character, "The Tokio Kid." Created as part of the company's drive to reduce tool breakage and waste, the Kid appears on posters that show broken drills, cracked cogwheels, mixed-up rivets, piles of scrap. "Bust tool make soooo happy, thank you," is the main theme of his left-handed sentiments...
...finally made a move last week toward its forgotten treasure-trove of a million-plus tons of scrap rubber (TIME, June 8). It even made a gesture toward putting the profit motive to work on the rubber shortage, by letting scrap dealers make a little money bringing in the scrap...
...Jesse Jones squeezed his moneybags, found he could afford to pay up to $25 a ton for scrap rubber delivered in carload lots. That makes the average old tire worth 25?, up 7? in a week...
...President Roosevelt decided that, before he orders nationwide gasoline rationing to save rubber, some bureau had better make a nationwide survey of just how much scrap rubber there...