Swelling synthetic rubber production lulled many a U.S. citizen into the pleasant belief that the rubber-tired nation had rolled safely past the crisis point (TIME, Oct. 18). Last week, OPA's Tire Ration Chief, Sparks Bonnett, jolted them as roughly as a blowout on a curve. Said he: the vise-tight pinch in tires is just beginning.
OPAster Bonnett made his ominous prediction before the rubber conservation conference of 2,000 tire dealers in Manhattan. His unstretchable rubber facts: U.S. passenger-tire stocks, new & used, shrank from 14,400,000 last January to 4,200,000 on Sept. 1. To assure adequate distribution, the U.S. cannot permit...
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