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Show COMMENTS .10,000 miles at speeds of not' over 3S miles per hour. And he warns a single day's output out-put of steel would enable the oil industry to build all the equipment needed to keep the civilian cars rolling. It will be a long time, of course before much rubber is available for anything except ex-cept vital use. RUBBER FOR AMERICA Hope for the American motorist is found in the, ambitious synthetic rubber progTam which is being developed by the oil industry. W. S. S. Rodgers, President of the Texas Tex-as Company, says that the automobile is so interwoven with our national economy that 'its necessary civilian use should and must be 'continued. The government's current synthe-ic synthe-ic rubber plan call for the creation of a supply sup-ply which vill be almost entirely absorbed by military needs. Therefore, the oil industry has appointed a committee "to make recommendations recom-mendations for increasing the announced programs so as to include some rubber for what we consider essential civilian use.' Commenting on this, Mr. Rogers said, ''I have a great deal of confidence in American ingenuity, and I would not be suprised if we should find some satisfactory solution to this rather difficult problem." Very great progress has been made in increasing the wearing ability of syntheic rubber for tires. According to W. S. Farish President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, rubber substitutes developed as late a 1940 would deliver only 200 miles of service. tNew synthetic rubber may deliver |