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Preparations for the basketball game have been going on for the last two weeks in the form of scrimmages between the ASTP, Eliot House, Varsity, and Junior Varsity teams. In these encounters, both Eliot and tire ASTP have given the Varsity hard tussles...
...plastic tire was announced by Good year last week. According to Goodyear, it had some advantages over tires of syn thetic or natural rubber. Unlike synthetic rubber (itself a soft plastic), the new tread does not readily become overheated on the road. Unlike natural rubber, it does not deteriorate in sunlight...
...tire material is an elastic vinyl plastic called Plioflex, which Good year had already found good for many other uses, including a garden hose which is much lighter than rubber-and-fabric, shoe uppers that need no polishing and can be cleaned with a damp cloth, heels, raincoats, draperies, etc. The key to its tire-making properties is a new curing agent that makes it possible to vulcanize Plioflex...
Whether Plioflex tires can compete in cost and durability with synthetic or natural rubber remains to be shown. In preliminary tests a Plioflex tire has been run 8,000 miles. (A good rubber tire, driven at 35 miles an hour, will run about 50,000 miles; a synthetic tire...
...trucks are only part of the trouble. Tires are a critical shortage. The Committee found that, despite glowing reports on synthetic rubber production, there will be a deficiency of about three million truck tires in 1944, and that heavy-duty tires made 70% of synthetic rubber will not stand up in service. To the tire industry the report said sourly: "The Committee is disappointed that the synthetic rubber tire manufacturing program has proceeded so far without solving the problem of making satisfactory heavy-duty tires for trucks and busses...