RUBBER PRODUCTION
ACTION URGED IN U.S.A. (Ey Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, January 7. The Department of Agriculture urged Congress to take immediate action to develop the production of the guayule rubber plant in the United States as a precaution against a long war. Planting available seedlings now would result in the production of 27,000 tons of rubber yearly by 1948, the department claims. At the same time Mr William O’Neill, president of the General Tire Company, urged a Congress committee to cultivate the Russian dandelion “sausagi,” which is supplying Russia with 20 per cent of her present rubber requirements.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1942, Page 6
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