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Giant. Also said Standard Statistics: "At the wheel of the automobile rides America's industrial destiny." In the U. S. are 320,000 filling stations, 51,200 public garages, 56,300 car and truck dealers. The industry uses 85% of the rubber, 80% of the gasoline, 75% of the plate glass, 18% of the steel, 25% of the lead produced in the land. In the U. S. are registered 26 million motor vehicles with a wholesale value of $3,500,000,000. Obvious are the reasons why U. S. businessmen, after examining the first show reports and reading...
Less ancient than Scovill, but still old by U. S. standards, is the Schrader concern. In 1844 August Schrader started making diving suits and air pumps, a business that brought him into contact with many of the early rubber experimenters. After making moulds for Dr. Charles Goodyear, Founder Schrader began to manufacture a variety of metal parts for rubber products. When pneumatic tires were made for bicycles he introduced a new valve, now used on 85% of automobile tires. Other Schrader products include metal parts for hot water bottles and footballs, tire pressure gauges, air-hose fittings, valve tools...
...Material. Biggest quest: Rubber. Blocked in the Philippines by adverse land laws, Harvey Firestone is pushing forward with new plantations in Liberia; Henry Ford has six thousand square miles for rubber production in Brazil; the U. S. Rubber Co.'s plantations in Sumatra and Malaya have grown from 14,000 acres to 135,000 acres in 18 years of production...
...There may be other rubber weeds. Mr. Edison has found traces of rubber in 1,200 U. S. plants, of 16,000 he has examined...
...Cheapest (English) artificial rubber, made from hydrocarbons, costs...