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Motorists felt the first pinch of the rubber shortage last week. The National Production Authority ordered that all new automobiles be delivered without a spare tire...
Automakers thought the order made no sense. They insisted that the U.S. stockpile now has enough rubber, and that increasing synthetic production plus the cut in auto production will soon end the shortage. Furthermore, though automakers will cut prices $13 to $17 to compensate for the missing tire, there is no way to force retailers to pass on the saving to buyers. And since motorists hate to drive without a spare tire, new-car buyers will have to purchase their own extra tire-at almost twice (from $24 to $30) the price of a spare...
...load on foreigners in March 1950, adventurous U.S. investors put $15 million into the new nation. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. is putting up a $2,500,000 auto plant in the Haifa Bay area; Philco Corp. has built a refrigerator plant near Tel Aviv; General Shoe Corp. and General Tire & Rubber Co. each has a factory...
...each call. There were 45 calls from or about Dawson, 151 from Boyle or his office. Mostly, Boyle or his men wanted him to see some "very dear friend" on an RFC matter. And in August 1950, the Democratic Committee called about a loan for Pacific Rubber Co., a tire company "wholly or partly owned" by President Truman's good friend Edwin W. Pauley. Mr. Dunham gave it-"I don't like to use the word special"-consideration because "we were anxious to have small businesses interested in rubber production...
...Hoof. In El Paso, Deputy Customs Collector Herman F. Cherry revealed that a surprise inspection at the Juarez bridge turned up: 1) 32 Ibs. of meat inside a spare tire; 2) an 8-lb. beef roast in a woman's purse; 3) a huge, raw, unwrapped round steak being worn as a girdle...