Show DELUGE officials in the office of the rubber a administrator are beginning to won der what they can do with the hundreds of thousands of tons of syn rubber which will come from the new plants next year it seems a little late but they are now facing the elementary question of whether or not the tire companies can handle the vast quantities of synthetic rubber the greatest amount of rubber ever processed by the nations rubber companies in one year was tons but next year we shall have nearly one million tons to deal with obviously the present facilities will be inadequate but the problem Is aggravated by the fact that tire manufacturing machinery has been knocked down and stored away so that rubber companies could convert to production tor for the war instead of tires they have been making rubber boats balloons tank treads and life rafts thus we have the problem of finding new plant space in which to bring that machinery back into production and the further problem of creating entirely new productive facilities cili ties to lo take care of the increased quantities of rubber which will be available tor for manufacture |