The fight over synthetic rubber was finished (TIME, Feb. 8). The issuehow many synthetic rubber plants Czar William Jeffers could build without using materials needed by the Army & Navywas ancient history. The decision was already on the books: Economic Czar James F. Byrnes, as referee, had decided to let Jeffers build plants for 452,000 tons, 43.6% of the amount called for by the Baruch report.
But in Washington's tumult nobody had heard the gong. So last week, before a joint session of House Military and Naval Affairs subcommittees, blunt Bill Jeffers...
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