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...raw materials that are used in our Mexican tires are exactly the same as those used by the General Tire & Rubber...
...newspaper Yomiuri, Navy spokesman Captain Hideo Hiraide wrote that, since the conquest of Java, Japan seemed to have taken the defensive while the Allies were on the offensive. He warned that Japan would probably be attacked from the air, that it was too soon for her newly captured raw materials to be fully exploited, that transportation was a difficult problem...
...after that, there is special entertainment at intervals all evening. A big draw is Blonde Colette Lyons, who tosses her torso around, shouting lines like: "I'm a sport with the boys at the Fort" or "I'm the toast of the boys at the Post." Anything raw on the performers' part is out. Betweenwhiles, the boys dance, or sit eating and drinking (generally milk...
Burlap is the "wrapping paper of the wholesale trade." The U.S., even in normal times, consumes more than 500,000,000 lb. of burlap a year. Bulk foods-grains, raw sugar, coffee, salt, livestock feeds-are bagged in burlap; so are cotton, wool, fertilizers, chemicals, countless industrial products. In wartime it is also needed for sandbags and camouflage fabrics. As raw jute, or as manufactured burlap, 99% of it originates in India, and 85% of that comes from around the steaming Ganges Delta in Bengal Province. In no other part of the world where acceptable jute can be grown...
...right over from SPAB and OPM. Tons of paper still needed seven signatures on each item. Jobs overlapped. In rubber, for instance: tall, bald Arthur Newhall handled the problem of rubber imports (there are virtually none). Production of synthetic rubber was technically under the command of WPB's raw materials Boss William L. ("Bill") Batt, was actually in charge of Hydra-handed Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, who doles out the dough. Used rubber was under Sears, Roebuck's J. Lessing Rosenwald. Rubber rationing was under Price Chief Leon Henderson...