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...survey of garages and car storage lots around the Square yesterday showed that Harvard men have been greatly affected by the new car and tire restrictions. Some student car-owners have even bought bicycles for local transportation...
...Tire Rationing No Problem...
...main garages which rent cars in the Square report that their tire situation is good, and that they will be able to rent cars for another year before tire rationing will hurt their business...
January sales of the Big Four rubber companies (Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S.) were at record or near-record levels. Firestone shareholders were dazed by their chairman's glowing descriptions of ten new plants and additions. General Tire & Rubber, reporting a 61% increase in 1941 sales, told its stockholders "there is no occasion for fear and panic...
...rush started in December, when all plants put truck & bus tire output on a 168-hour week basis. Now Akron is setting production records on airplane tires, tank tracks, barrage balloons, bulletproof gas tanks, life rafts, gas masks, thousands of other wartime rubber items. Because the biggest bomber tire uses more rubber than 60 passenger-car tires and the tracks of a medium tank use almost a ton, Akron is "chewing" rubber at a record rate. December consumption was 60-70,000 tons, highest December ever and enough to use up the entire U.S. stockpile (Jesse Jones's figure...