Strategic and Critical Materials, Hearing ..., on S. 2152 ..., Dec 10, 1941, Parts 1-2 |
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... Neoprene . " We built our first commercial plant for making Neoprene in 1931. We have been producing it on a commercial scale . ever since . Our production has increased by more than 100 percent every year since then , with one ...
... Neoprene . " We built our first commercial plant for making Neoprene in 1931. We have been producing it on a commercial scale . ever since . Our production has increased by more than 100 percent every year since then , with one ...
Page 64
... Neoprene ? Mr. BRIDGEWATER . Neoprene is the name of this product we manu- facture , which we sell to rubber manufacturers , to all rubber manu- facturers . The CHAIRMAN . That plant was built in 1931 , I believe you said ? Mr ...
... Neoprene ? Mr. BRIDGEWATER . Neoprene is the name of this product we manu- facture , which we sell to rubber manufacturers , to all rubber manu- facturers . The CHAIRMAN . That plant was built in 1931 , I believe you said ? Mr ...
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... Neoprene or any of these others then we do not know that it can be done . The CHAIRMAN . That is it . That is what I wanted to bring out . Senator DowNEY . Let me ask you two or three specific questions : To what extent do you think ...
... Neoprene or any of these others then we do not know that it can be done . The CHAIRMAN . That is it . That is what I wanted to bring out . Senator DowNEY . Let me ask you two or three specific questions : To what extent do you think ...
Page 68
... Neoprene could not be used for all the rubber parts that go into a seaplane . I might say I think it would be more difficult to make a seaplane without Neoprene than to make it without rubber , because there has not been one made for ...
... Neoprene could not be used for all the rubber parts that go into a seaplane . I might say I think it would be more difficult to make a seaplane without Neoprene than to make it without rubber , because there has not been one made for ...
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... Neoprene pro- duction facilities . It is highly probable that our expenditures next year will be considerably in excess of our expenditures this year , because that has been the history of this business . In other words , we are ...
... Neoprene pro- duction facilities . It is highly probable that our expenditures next year will be considerably in excess of our expenditures this year , because that has been the history of this business . In other words , we are ...
Common terms and phrases
20 cents 20 percent acreage America amount ANDERSON answer APPLEBY bill BRANDES BRIDGEWATER Buna rubber butadiene butyl rubber cents a pound cents per pound CHAIRMAN COLLYER commercial committee cost of production course crop crude rubber cultivation David Spence Department of Agriculture deresinated emergency experience FARRISH figures gentlemen going goldenrod Government growing guayule rubber guayule shrub harvested Hevea rubber increase Intercontinental Rubber light aging long tons MASON material McCallum Mexico months natural rubber necessary Neoprene nursery planting of guayule possible practical present quantity question reclaimed rubber resin rubber content rubber industry rubber manufacturers rubber supply Salinas Salinas Valley Secretary JONES seedlings Senator AUSTIN Senator CHANDLER Senator DOWNEY Senator GURNEY Senator HILL Senator HOLMAN Senator KILGORE Senator THOMAS Senator WALLGREN Spence substitute suggested synthetic rubber thing THOMAS of Utah tion tons a day tons of rubber tread United
Popular passages
Page 80 - The Corporation shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails for its official business in the same manner as the executive departments of the Government, and shall determine its necessary expenditures under this Act and the manner in which they shall be incurred, allowed^ and paid, without regard to the provisions of any other law governing the expenditure of public funds.
Page 71 - I shall be glad to answer them to the best of my ability. The CHAIRMAN. Are there any further questions?
Page 39 - SEC. 5. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,000,000, to be expended under the joint direction of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy...
Page 80 - Corporation ; and, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law governing the expenditure of public funds, the General Accounting Office, in the settlement of the accounts of the...
Page 1 - ... breeding or by selection, and to improve planting methods; to make surveys of areas suitable for cultivating guayule; to make experimental plantings; and to conduct agronomic tests; (6) To conduct tests, in which he may cooperate with any other public or private agency, to determine the qualities of rubber...
Page 80 - ... thousand acres of guayule inside the Western Hemisphere; and (9) To exercise with respect to rubber-bearing plants other than guayule the same powers as are granted in the foregoing provisions of this section with respect to guayule. SEC.
Page 2 - There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Page 2 - The Secretary with the consent of any executive department, independent establishment, or other agency of the Government, including any field service thereof, may avail himself of the use of information, services, facilities, officers, and employees thereof in carrying out the provisions of this title.
Page 2 - Board, in accordance with the civil-service laws, and whose compensation shall be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Each such veterans...
Page 1 - Hemisphere where guayule might be grown; and to establish and maintain records indicating areas to which guayule cultivation could be extended for emergency production; (4) To construct or operate, or to contract for the operation of, factories for the extraction of rubber from guayule, and from Chrysothamnus, commonly known as rabbit brush; to purchase guayule shrub...