Word: camelback
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...Fleet business had made a few retread concerns profitable long before the war. But war means a boom for all 4,500 of them - as long as they can get equipment and supplies. A retreader's equipment: 5- $6,000 worth of molds and buffing machinery. Chief material: camelback, an uncured rubber compound of the same ingredients that go into new tires...
...owner comes in before his tires are too badly worn, they can be simply recapped: their surface roughened, cement applied, a strip of camelback molded and vulcanized over it. Retreading costs more (about $7 for a 6-by-16 tire, or about half the price of a new tire) than recapping, † and uses more rubber, since the old top rubber, worn too thin for roughening, must be cut and buffed away. The camelback is then applied to the naked carcass. Even for a good retread job the tire must have some rubber...
Rubber. This year the tire companies made 65,000,000 new tires, sold retreaders 30,000 tons of camelback for 8,000,000 retread jobs. For 1942, retreaders have set a goal of 20,000,000 jobs requiring 80,000 tons of camelback. OPM has promised allocation of enough rubber to satisfy all defense retread needs, but trucks and busses are likely to get theirs first...
Kukan is loaded with the movement and color of their activities-training for the Army, endlessly building the Burma Road, bringing oil and gasoline and munitions from Russia by camelback, operating their vest-pocket industries, substituting their man power for gasoline and machine tools. All Chinese, they are an astonishingly jolly conglomeration of smiling, healthy people...
...high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...