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Fact 1. Synthetic-rubber plants, and the refineries which make high-octane gasoline for the Army's airplanes, both use heat and pressure processes which require boilers, hundreds of valves, condensers, pumps, gauges, instruments. Thus they conflict with each other-and with the Navy's escort vessel program, which requires much the same type of "component part...
Fact 2. The Army's gasoline program has been expanded and re-expanded as aircraft production increased. The Navy's escort vessel schedules, off to a slow start and interrupted by shifts in strategy, have been stepped up to cope with the U-boat. The Baruch rubber report, with its recommendation for 1,037,000 tons of capacity, was drawn up before anybody knew how many component parts would be needed elsewhere...
Fact 4. One of the three conflicting programs must suffer: rubber, escort vessels, or high-octane gas. Jimmy Byrnes has decided-wisely, but after a long delay -that the last 585,000 tons of capacity in the Baruch rubber recommendations can best be spared...
...Canada has built and put in operation some 500 warships, most of them escort craft which are doing nearly half the Atlantic convoy work...
...April 16, 1941 Reporter O'Donnell sent his papers a dispatch which they printed next day and which said: "Charges that battlecraft of the Navy and Coast Guard are now giving armed escort to munition-laden British merchantmen leaving Atlantic ports exploded . . . tonight." Next day the strongly pro-New Deal Record printed an editorial saying: "A few hours after the [O'Donnell] story appeared, the President denounced it as 'a deliberate lie.' . . . John O'Donnell is a Naziphile. ... On numerous occasions, to all friends and barflies within hearing, he has broadcast his sympathy with most...