CRISIS OVER RUBBER
CONSERVATION NECESSARY Rec. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. 26. An appeal for augmented production from all rubber-growing areas' and more strenuous conservation efforts in all the United Nations was made by the Anglo-American Combined Raw Materials Board in Washington. The difficulties created by less favourable supply prospects have been aggravated by the new arid urgent demand from France, Belgium, and other parts of liberated' Europe. Until Far Eastern supplies are once more available, the need for rubber conservation remains such that the shift-over from natural to synthetic rubber is being pressed not merely in the United States and Britain, but in other important countries. This shift to synthetic rubber must be pushed in every country to the limits of technical feasibility.
It is admitted that this might involve some sacrifice of quantity and quality of tyres, but the board declares that this is not too high a price to pay to keep the natural rubber stock from falling below the danger level.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 128, 27 November 1944, Page 6
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164CRISIS OVER RUBBER Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 128, 27 November 1944, Page 6
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