Strategic and Critical Materials, Hearing ..., on S. 2152 ..., Dec 10, 1941, Parts 1-2 |
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... shrub in Salinas , Calif . It is a shrub that grows in that section of the country , and , according to its age , its content of rubber increases , beginning at the end of the first year and continuing on with an increase each year ...
... shrub in Salinas , Calif . It is a shrub that grows in that section of the country , and , according to its age , its content of rubber increases , beginning at the end of the first year and continuing on with an increase each year ...
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... shrub grows ? Mr. MASON . The shrub is grown , or can be grown - and the Depart- ment of Agriculture will bear this out - in California , Texas , Arizona , and New Mexico , and they believe it may be grown in other States . It demands ...
... shrub grows ? Mr. MASON . The shrub is grown , or can be grown - and the Depart- ment of Agriculture will bear this out - in California , Texas , Arizona , and New Mexico , and they believe it may be grown in other States . It demands ...
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... shrub planted , what time of the year ? Mr. MASON . Well , I understand that it can be planted in January , in order to take advantage of the winter rains . They have an irriga- tion system that is used , too , so that it could be ...
... shrub planted , what time of the year ? Mr. MASON . Well , I understand that it can be planted in January , in order to take advantage of the winter rains . They have an irriga- tion system that is used , too , so that it could be ...
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... shrub , which can be grown in semiarid regions of California and other far Southwestern States . The plant can be harvested within 1 year after planting , but it is more economical to let it continue to grow for several years . A ...
... shrub , which can be grown in semiarid regions of California and other far Southwestern States . The plant can be harvested within 1 year after planting , but it is more economical to let it continue to grow for several years . A ...
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... shrub which is native to North Central Mexico and the Big Bend area of Texas . In 1912 , the year of greatest output , Mexico produced 10,000 long tons of guayule rubber . After 1912 the Mexican output declined , and in 1940 amounted to ...
... shrub which is native to North Central Mexico and the Big Bend area of Texas . In 1912 , the year of greatest output , Mexico produced 10,000 long tons of guayule rubber . After 1912 the Mexican output declined , and in 1940 amounted to ...
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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
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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.
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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...