What shall the U.S. do with its $700 million worth of synthetic rubber plants? Last week the Inter-Agency Policy Committee on Rubber,* chairmaned by William L. Batt, laid down a broad program for the care and feeding of this wartime monster which might easily turn into a peacetime white elephant.
As long as natural crude rubber remains scarce and private industry does not assume the job, the program calls for Jumbo to be maintained as a public charge. Labor difficulties and political upheavals in Far Eastern producing areas will hold 1946 U.S. imports of crude to about 250,000...
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