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Show R aImne. pincVi-Hittin- g i The naUoat As "is fen of synuor k. ; V ber, tke 5 conquest U. S. Truck Occupies North Africa Fighting Skipper Asiatic rubber tion was isbemgdone Akron. 0 the , new. The - tity producI when the These wturalr tbetic break b Sebberbeneck' & ' Above: Carefully selected soap is used in the making of solutions for manufacture of synthetic rubber. This worker is mixing a solution in a tank. Left: Polymerizer tank, which converts the raw rials of synthetic rubber into latex. The gallant light cruiser, Boise, completed a trip home after sustaining grievous wounds in battle action in the Solomons. The ship, which was brought against heavy Jap In this picture an American army truck is shown coming ashore cruisers, was chiefly instrumental from a landing barge during operations in the occupation of French in sinking six Jap warships. Capt. E. J. (Mike) Moran, skipper of North Africa. British and American soldiers the latter wearing a miniature American flag on the arm carry out the beaching operation. The the Boise, is shown being greeted on the deck of his ship by Adm. 100 per cent in this grand scale operation, which weatherman of wrested North Africa from Vichys hands. At this spot there Ernest King, commander-in-chie- f are often heavy swells, but on this day it was calm. (Photo approved V. S. fleet, as the Boise reached the Philadelphia navy yard. by war department.) pro-Ax- is Brazil Ready for Invasion Hope It Backfires If and When r These workers are removing rubber crumbs from the perforatec !' I l,. V Japs are forced to employ any means available to move guns and Under President Getulio Vargas the Brazilian army, navy and air supplies into the field of action at force has been modernized and is ready to meet any threatened Axis the front lines in China. In this invasion. Picture shows a group of Brazilian soldiers passing in review picture, taken by the U. S. signal during a parade in Rio. The parade was in honor of the fifth anniversary corps, Jap fliers are shown loading an aerial bomb on a truck. of the 'administration of President Vargas. boxes below the coagulating and extractor tanks. The rubber drips inti the boxes from the tanks, and water previously added to dissolve tht soap in the solution runs off through perforations in the box. This rub ber will now be prepared for the wash mill. A Batch of Rubber As U. S. Rangers Arrived at Oran After the milling process, where crumbs of synthetic rubber are This sheet of synthetic rubber pressed into sheets, then trimmed coming off the rolling mill in the to size and colled, the sheets are plant at Akron, O., is now ready for placed in these charging and disdrying. charging vacuum dryers. Using an ordinary bakery mixer, Tom (left) and Jimmy Richards of Los Angeles, who call themselves are monkey wrench researchers, shown turning out a batch of the This photograph, radioed from London to New York, and sound-- I synthetic rubber they have develcan be produced photoed to Chicago, shows United States Rangers and equipment arriving oped. They say it from waste to the matter, waste as vegetable boats occupy at a beach near Oran, Algeria, in they prepared 35 French possessions on the north Mediterranean shore. In between the milk, etc., and can be made for 40 to cents with a encountered American compared pound, landings only fero key ports, Algiers and Oran, 70 cents for other synthetics. They time. short in remarkably and made penetrations resistance deep slight is say Rubber Czar Jeffers This is one of the first pictures of landing operations in North Africa to '' in America. ar-fi- ve Newly rolled sheets of synthetic v- - rubber are cut to size for the k dry-ingpa- ns |