Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swelling synthetic rubber production lulled many a U.S. citizen into the pleasant belief that the rubber-tired nation had rolled safely past the crisis point (TIME, Oct. 18). Last week, OPA's Tire Ration Chief, Sparks Bonnett, jolted them as roughly as a blowout on a curve. Said he: the vise-tight pinch in tires is just beginning...
...synthetic-rubber situation, which seemed well in hand when Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers resigned last month, was somewhat out of hand again last week. Five major tire makers warned of a possible breakdown in tire making, chiefly because of shortages in manpower and rayon cord. The total tire reserve was down to less than 3,000,000. The manufacturers doubted that they could meet the goal of 30,000,000 new tires next year. And some disappointed motorists began to raise doubts about the quality of synthetic-rubber tires...
Nonetheless, tire makers admitted last week that they had not completely solved the problem of synthetic tire making. There was plenty of synthetic rubber. But converting it into usable tires was something else again. Rubber chemists of the American Chemical Society, convened in Manhattan, found several synthetic-tire woes to talk about...
...Tire makers have found, after much fumbling, that synthetic tire making requires an entirely new technique, new machines. Processing synthetic rubber to get it in proper condition for fabricating takes 25% longer than natural rubber...
...Tire quality is spotty, varies a good deal according to the skill of the maker...