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...every U.S. city and town, a little group of citizens got to work on a delicate, ticklish, thankless job. They were the new tire-rationing boards, serving without pay, appointed to decide who should get new tires and who should go without...
...tires available this month (normal monthly purchases: 4,000,000) the U.S. citizen must now beg it from his local board. He must fill out a blank as complete as an income-tax statement, proving that he is in one of the 17 essential categories (medicos, common carriers, wholesale delivery, public service, etc.), that he has a tire beyond repair or retreading, that he has no spares available, no other vehicles which he could use instead...
...tire boards will not deal with the average man, for no private motorist can buy a tire until the Far Eastern supply lines are opened. But the average man will be increasingly aware of the boards, as they take over rationing yet to come. They, or boards like them, will handle the rationing of new automobiles announced last week (see p. 61), the expected rationing of refrigerators, radios, metal furniture, many another item...
...Neither retreading nor recapping is to be confused with regrooving. This merely cuts new treads (for safety) in a tire worn smooth. No new rubber is added, nor is the life of the tire prolonged...
Simple to produce, guayule rubber has never before got out of the pin-money class, mainly because it costs 12-15? a Ib. v. 5-10? for plantation rubber. It is too soft to replace tree rubber completely in the vast tire and inner-tube market, is chiefly used (especially by Goodrich) for impregnating the cotton strands in belting, shoes, raincoats, etc. Hence Intercontinental has never produced more than 5,000 tons a year (less than 1% of U.S. consumption); it has lost money in eight of the last twelve years; its 1940 profits were only $324,000, about...