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VISITOR: That's all Hell needs...
...lower-bracket income taxes (which hit 50% in England at the $660-a-year income level) the U.S. citizen has not even begun to fight. But the U.S. corporation, long the biggest taxpayer on earth, will have extra good tax reason next year to feel that war is hell...
...average U.S. citizen said the hell with it and went for a long, tire-consuming joyride last week, it was small wonder. As the week wore on, he was subjected to more confusion than ever about the rubber shortage. Some moderately good news of ersatz tire prospects was perverted into a miracle like the loaves and fishes...
...another country, would have cost a couple of Ministers their jobs or perhaps have toppled a whole government. Only in the past eight weeks has a new team, with a passion for anonymity, arisen in Washington to take hold of the synthetic-rubber program and push it through, come hell or high water. Only now are there some grounds for honest optimism...
After Pearl Harbor all hell broke loose. Aside from a start on four "shadow plants," the U.S. had 25,000 tons a year of privately financed synthetic capacity (all specialty rubbers like neoprene). This was about the tonnage that Germany had when she entered the war in 1939, and it was pretty good for private industry, considering the cost, but for the U.S. at war it was rubber starvation. Congress and the people began to howl...