Show 10 TIB ille RUBBER the ugliest grim niest war shortage facing the U S is rubber kubber says time it need deed not have been for five months after pearl harbor the U S government did practically nothing to get a rubber industry to till fill the gap caused by japans conquests on quests that blidt failure Is the worst Bc in the U S war effort there has been an enormous waste of thue in coining t to D grips with the rubber lubber pr problem pio blem there has been endless con contusion fasion and excessive division of ty at last however hove ei it looks as 11 Bome so thug definite and construe tive Is about to be done on july 17 donald nelson announced that he had assumed personal onal direction of the go bovein vern ments rubber program pio giam on the th same ame day the ath corps area quartermasters quarton masters headquarters said that tires made of buna a petroleum derivative deih athe will bo be used as replacements placements le on all army vehicles throughout the nation and on july jul 15 president W S parish 0 r the standard oil corn com pani of oc new ne jersey gave a house subcommittee some exceedingly exceeding interesting intel estling information on the progress pio giess that Is being made new and faster aster processes said mr mi will produce pio duce before the end oi of 1942 more automobile tires than were expected further Fu ither synthetic rubber will be better on the whole than natural rubber and Us its cost will not be materially matei tally greater this does not mean that any motorist can afford to burn up his rubber on the theory that replacements wili ivill soon be avail able nigle conservation of rubber as a result retains an absolute necessity nece necos salty sity private industry la Is doing everything in its ita power to produce a an a adequate supply 0 f synthetic rubber la in the shortest possible time there are arec at i last grounds ground s for bell believing evini that government rubber red tape Is cut and that there can be action not conten continued ed political talk in dealing with the rubber problem |