RUBBER Synthetic and the Future The Office of Rubber Director asked permission last week to cut its own throat.
It was the first wartime Government agency to put it that way. For rubber pro duction, once the No. 1 U.S. war problem, has been solved. U.S. plants now produce at a rate of 836,000 long tons of synthetic rubber a year (more than 25% above the peak prewar import of crude). ORD has no job left; what remains are manpower problems and production troubles in tire manufacturing.
In September 1942 the U.S. was nearly...
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