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Those far-off lands mean little to the U. S.-except that thence come the major portion of the rubber and the tin on which the U. S. depends. There is no other present source from which the U. S. can get an adequate supply of these necessities, particularly rubber (see p. 73). With the prospect of victorious dictatorships in control of Europe, Asia and Africa, the U. S. would have to decide whether it could then afford to be cut off from its supply of these strategic materials. However the U. S. decision goes, it will be serious...
...fact that if the U. S. should find itself at war with Japan in the Far East it will be cut off from the Indies, and other Eastern areas, which produce 90% of the world's rubber, 50% of the world's tin, tungsten (21%), manganese (27%), quinine (95%), Manila fibre...
...across the Pacific many a U. S. businessman cast an uneasy mind's eye. For south and east from the foot of Thailand (Siam) across the Java Sea to Papua lie The Netherlands East Indies, whence the U. S. gets major portions of two strategic materials: rubber and tin. With The Netherlands at war, Japan might cut off that supply, alternatively might exploit a grab by controlling production, prices...
...Tin, a long way from being as indispensable as rubber, is also a less ugly picture from the supply side. No. 1 use (45% of consumption) of tin is for coating the cans in which U. S. citizens get their beans, their beer, their motor oil. Other uses are smaller percentagewise, but often less easily switched. Tin is indispensable for Babbitt metal and bronze used in aircraft and automobile engines...
...only a run-down vacant lot on the edge of East Cambridge. Overgrown with weeds and tall grass, littered with broken bottles and rusty tin cans--hardly an inspiring sight. But add to this eyesore 235 play-hungry kids, a brigade of willing undergraduates, and a dash of cooperation from the City of Cambridge. Result: a recipe for civic improvement. A dash of cooperation? None is forthcoming. The local Park Board has contributed only an official frown...