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DRASTIC ACTION NEEDED IN UNITED STATES PROPOSALS BY SPECIAL COMMITTEE. PRAISED BY PRESIDENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 10. President Roosevelt’s special rubber investigation committee, headed by Mr Bernard Baruch, has presented its report which states that the existing situation is so dangerous that unless corrective measures are taken immediately the country will face a military and civilian collapse. A nationwide rationing of gasoline and drastic restrictions on the civilian use of automobiles are recommended as a means of conserving rubber. The report said there was no middle course —it was-- discomfort or defeat. The committee also recommended an expansion of the synthetic rubber production programme to 1,100,000 tons a year, a speed limit of 35 miles an hour and an average annual mileage’, per car not exceeding 5,000 miles—this only for necessary driving. President Roosevelt praised the committee’s far-reaching report and said the recommendations would be put into effect as rapidly as possible.,.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1942, Page 2
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