U.S. RUBBER SHORTAGE
HELP OF NEW PETROL PROCESS. (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 13. chemists hav? perfected a new petroleum-cracking process for making high-grade aviation gasoline. The process also will likewise help to remo.ve the bottleneck in the’ production of synthetic rubber. The new cracking process enables the same refining plant to produce both aeroplane fuel and butadiene, a vital ingredient for the manufacturing cK synthetic rubber. Hitherto gasoline and butadiene have been produced separately. President Roosevelt, in a broadcast urged the people to co-operate to the utmost in a nation-wide scran rubber collection campaign from June 15 to June 30.?.• Although a serious rubber shortage exists, Mr. Roosevelt promised that “there will be enough rubber to build planes to bomb Tokio and Berlin. to crush the enemv wherever he is found, and to win thp war.”
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Grey River Argus, 15 June 1942, Page 1
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