RUBBER: Toward a Triumph

Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers wrote his third progress report to the U.S. people as the biggest, most fully integrated synthetic rubber plant formally began operations in West Virginia. Said Czar Jeffers:

"While the Rubber Program is not yet solved, it is in the best shape it has ever been." He cited chapter & verse:

> Of the entire program—now cut back to the 850,000 tons where it was before the Baruch report raised the sights—30% is completed and the rest is due to come in by year's end.

> This year's essential...

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