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From almost any vegetable material-molasses, potatoes, scrap wood-but best of all from coal, gas or oil can be derived plain butadiene, a gas which is easily liquefied under pressure to form the basic building-blocks of most synthetic rubbers. Butadiene molecules were first polymerized-or built up into larger molecules-with the help of metallic sodium, making a stretchy substance which its German inventors about 1927 called Buna (Bu for butadiene, Na for sodium). It was not a very satisfactory synthetic: but better than the methyl rubber (dimethyl butadiene) of World War I, when it was said German...
...Scrap and Iron Ore. From 1936 to 1940 she got from the U.S. 8,222,259 tons of scrap; none since Sept. 30, 1940. For iron ore she depended mostly on imports too. Japan is now confiscating manhole covers, gutter pipes, name plates, old railway cars to build her scrap stockpile...
...today are both Sophomores. Jim Reidy will meet Tech's Bob Gillooly in the 121 pound class; while 128 pounder Ed Guild faces Bill Clark. In the 136 class, Senior Harry Blaine tackles Dick Grant of Tech; and Sophomore Ken Heyman faces Captain Bob Fottes in the 145 pound scrap...
...Scrap-conscious OPM conservationists last week saved for defense the rusting skeleton of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") from a watery grave in Puget Sound. Scrap dealers had not been interested until OPM stirred them up. Now they figure they can salvage it at a. profit even under the $20-a-ton scrap ceiling. Result: addition of 3,500 tons to tne shrinking U.S. scrap-steel stockpile, enough to build 500 light tanks...
...From the dim recesses of the Library of Congress, the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, Capitol Architect David Lynn recovered 285 tons of scrap-old motors, brass book ends, aluminum and steel strips, copper scraps...