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...opinion, delivered last week by two FCC commissioners, raised again an important question of public policy for radio. It was a by-product of the approval by FCC as a whole of the sale of New England's biggest radio chain, the 21-station Yankee Network, to General Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron...
These concerns were not discussed by Yankee's new owner-president, big, genial, tough William O'Neil, General Tire president. Said he: "We are not going to disturb the network. . . . This is an investment. . . . This was a wonderful piece of business...
Some time next week the first synthetic-rubber plant in Rubber Czar William Jeffers' 1,000,000-ton program will actually start turning out butadiene-the strategic chemical that forms the basis of Buna-S tire rubber. The plant: Union Carbide & Carbon's 80,000-ton unit at Institute, W. Va., which will make rubber from grain alcohol...
Then he pleaded with civilians to sacrifice more, complain less. "The cry and objection to being rationed on rubber and gasoline seem so insignificant, so ridiculous, when we see what the boys at the front have got. ... If people only knew that the saving of one old rubber tire makes it possible to produce one of those rafts, which might be responsible, as it has been in our case, for saving seven men . . . they might not worry whether they have their automobiles on weekends...
...Black Tires, Black Coffee. The sheer lack of tires, first black-market commodity, has today almost eliminated them from off-the-market deals. But OPA is still catching up with the bootleg tire gangs that flourished in the days when there were still some to bootleg. In contrast, coffee is still too newly rationed for the gangs to have caught up with it, may well be too scarce (and too precious to the consumers who have all the ration cou pons) ever to become a serious problem...