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Show New Products. Among the more colorful products predicted for the future, are gasoline gaso-line for automobiles yielding 40 miles to the gallon, and nylon cord tires of unparalleled strength. Eye dropper quantities of lead tetraethyl added to a gallon of gasoline gaso-line will convert it into high-octane fuel necessary for airplanes. It is this new and more powerful fuel which heralds performances of 400 miles an hour for civilian transport planes, and promises 40 miles per gallon for automobiles after the war. Due in large part to chemical products developed for use in proc essing and vulcanizing rubber tires of the future are expected to pos. sess longer life. Cords of rayon and nylon, along with special carbon blacks for increasing toughness and anti-oxidants for retarding the de feneration of rubber, are among the new developments. So much for the U.S.A. Looking around us, we see numerous changes in the world, many of which I? om t0 ve their economic effects after the war. As an example, we need not uo any further than South America first of all, many of our good ne h bors to the south are accumu S arge amounts of dollar exchange that ls American money, which wui be spent or mvested here or abroad when conditions permit hartheK .many f these varies 1 debt to foreign countries. |