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Butyl is made from petroleum. The Army is getting 12,000,000 Ibs. a month for tire tubes. Other butyl uses: waterproof clothes, tents, hoses, draperies...
Battle Broom. The popular belief that the Army throws away a truck when it gets a flat tire may die hard. But the long convoys of mobile maintenance companies, wich followed the U.S. armies, boast that they tidy up a battlefield in two weeks...
Although immediately after Pearl Harbor the government began to expand its plans for synthetic rubber, President Conant asserted that without gasoline rationing the country would have met with disaster in its tire supply for civilian necessities...
Since 1912, bald, businesslike Dr. Lucas Petrou Kyrides (rhymes with Wheaties) has been grinding out inventions in a steady stream. His inventions, now totaling over 100, include a syphilis-curing drug (Mercurosal), the first U.S. process for making synthetic rubber from isoprene and butadiene, the first U.S. synthetic rubber tire (in 1913). As a research boss at St. Louis' potent Monsanto Chemical Co., Dr. Kyrides is one of the nation's top industrial chemists. But not until last week did he get his first public kudos: the American Chemical Society's first annual Midwest award for outstanding...
Although many experts are inclined to discount wartime record-breakers, some are already comparing French-Canadian Maurice Richard with the incomparable Howie Morenz in speed, aggressiveness, accuracy, durability. Durable he certainly is, by any standard. Said he one afternoon last month: "I'm all tire out. Dis afternoon I move my partment bout tree block and can't get no truck. So my brudder and me we move everything. Don't depen' too much on me." That night he got five goals and three assists -a league scoring record...