Word: tiring
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Mexico can afford to sell new tires in order to lure tourists. Enough crude rubber is stored in Mexican tire factories to keep them running as usual through 1942. Made of guayule rubber, with small amounts of Brazilian crude, these tires are the same kind the U.S. may eventually get. But even the best of them-General Popo, Goodrich Euzcadi-are none too good. Said an amiable Mexican: "They don't wear as long-but then, you don't pay as much for them...
...quiz established one piece of good news, however. Patents on synthetic-rubber processes are no longer holding up the show. Thanks largely to nudges from the Department of Justice, on Dec. 19 all U.S. owners pooled their patents in Rubber Reserve Co.-including Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), whose Buna tire-rubber patents (obtained from the German Dye Trust) are the most promising...
There are no longer any English cycles available, and the supply of second-hand machines is being exhausted much faster than it can be replenished. Although the store has plenty of parts for broken bicycles, the tire situation is bad. There is still a large supply of tires on hand, but they are mostly in odd sizes not required by customers...
Although somewhat hampered by the tire shortage, the Outing Club is running two ski trips over the holiday weekend. One of the groups is going to the Plymouth Youth Hostel, and the other is going with Radcliffe skiers to a cabin in Pinkham Notch...
...Harvard cars, but the smaller garages that are located farther from the Square say they have only half as many cars owned by Harvard men as they had last year. It is difficult to tell whether the decrease in cars owned by students is a result of the tire shortage or a fear of the future scarcity of automobiles because of non-production...