Show ersatz rubber there are no illusions about meeting our rubber requirements through I 1 synthetics alone the producing of sufficient ersatz rubber to satisfy the smallest part of our needs is still in the dream stage in 1939 less than 2000 tons of the artificial product were manufactured and in in 1940 the amount was not materially increased it was predicted that the united states in 1941 would be manufacturing tons of synthetic rubber but we are far very far indeed at this date from such a goal and in connection with synthetic rubber the thing to remember is that right now we need not less than tons of rubber a yearl year I 1 even when the thoughts of war were far removed from our minds we needed around tons practically all of which went into manufacturing fac turing automobile tires and inner tubes yearly |