Home last week from a 20,000-mile jaunt through the U.S., South America and England, bland, bulky Paul Weeks Litchfield, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s big-framed president, was chock full of war and postwar plans. Said he :
>By October, the U.S. will be producing enough synthetic rubber (about 600,000 tons a year) to match the prewar U.S. consumption of natural rubber. But pleas ure drivers will probably get no new tires before spring 1944. Even then, synthetic rubber will take only about 85% as much road wear as natural rubber.
>"Goodyear has...
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