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Franklin Roosevelt last week let a wishful cat out of a hypothetical bag. Said the President casually, in answer to a question at his press conference: he was not excited about tires; things would work out; already under study were two or three tire substitutes which did not require rubber; if they would just permit a man to drive 30 miles an hour, he could get to work and back...
...Charles Kaiser used dime-store shoe soles as recaps, got 1,200 miles from them (see cut). The Army had already begun shifting from rubber tank treads to steel treads, which are not as good, but replaceable. Drastic steps were necessary, and would certainly be invoked-such as commandeering tire stockpiles, the requisition of civilian cars, a further abandonment of duplicating bus lines...
...maximize loads per truck in both directions. The number of trips on certain routes will be cut. By such cooperation, and with the greatest attention to maintenance, highway operators grimly aim to get a million miles of life out of each truck, 125,000 miles (with recapping) from each tire. But none of them can see beyond...
...constant weight on the front wheels makes a smooth ride, he said, while the absence of a hood would bring the road too close to the driver, tire his eyes. "If the air-cooled engine is generally adopted," said cautious Bob Gregorie, "It will be compact and could be placed anywhere...
...told Rubber Coordinator Arthur B. Newhall, a former Goodrich official, that he had put together natural gas, wood pulp, coal, lamp black and other ingredients into a rubber-substance which had already given 10,000 miles of service as a tire retread. He had 50 pounds of it in his car, right outside the building. But his pilot plant back home, worse luck, had just been smashed by robbers and couldn't be inspected by government experts just then. For Coordinator Newhall the amateur rubber-makers pose a problem: among many crackpot processes, is there one he dare...