THE rubber shortage, the gravest material crisis this country has ever faced, is at last on the road to solution. Synthetic rubber has turned the corner. Big factories are rapidly coming into ...

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Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers wrote his third progress report to the U.S. people as the biggest, most fully integrated synthetic rubber plant formally began operations in West Virginia. Said Czar ...

Many people know that most of Germany’s army trucks, armored cars, gun carriages and motorcycles roll on synthetic rubber. Fewer people are aware that throughout U. S. industry for some time synthetic ...

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Across the country, spring is fast approaching and the weather is thawing out after a snowy, cold winter. Cooped up children ...