Strategic and Critical Materials, (guayule Rubber): Hearing, December 10, 1941U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - Guayule |
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... ( continuing ) . I will explain that guayule is a decidu- ous shrub brought to this country in 1912 and is found growing ... continue and tell the chair- man to what extent , if any , the shrub has been improved in rubber content through ...
... ( continuing ) . I will explain that guayule is a decidu- ous shrub brought to this country in 1912 and is found growing ... continue and tell the chair- man to what extent , if any , the shrub has been improved in rubber content through ...
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... continue to grow for several years . A shortage of seed limits the rapidity with which guayule production could be increased . It would require several years to make the guayule shrub an important commercial source of rubber . Probably ...
... continue to grow for several years . A shortage of seed limits the rapidity with which guayule production could be increased . It would require several years to make the guayule shrub an important commercial source of rubber . Probably ...
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... ( continuing ) . Dated August 1941 ? Mr. MASON . That is right . Senator DOWNEY . I would like , now , Mr. Chairman , to place into the record an article by Jackson Barber entitled " Possibilities of Guayule Rubber , " taken from Rubber ...
... ( continuing ) . Dated August 1941 ? Mr. MASON . That is right . Senator DOWNEY . I would like , now , Mr. Chairman , to place into the record an article by Jackson Barber entitled " Possibilities of Guayule Rubber , " taken from Rubber ...
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... continue with that plant , they replant it in the field , I imagine . The question is connection with that , Senator Downey , is that you have a plant here which is 6 inches long , or close to that , at the expi- ration of the first ...
... continue with that plant , they replant it in the field , I imagine . The question is connection with that , Senator Downey , is that you have a plant here which is 6 inches long , or close to that , at the expi- ration of the first ...
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... continue to get , and none of us do , and if it is feasible to get a substantial supply of this rubber , in addition to what we are doing , I think it is well worth considering . Frankly , I have not been convinced that it is a very ...
... continue to get , and none of us do , and if it is feasible to get a substantial supply of this rubber , in addition to what we are doing , I think it is well worth considering . Frankly , I have not been convinced that it is a very ...
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20 cents 30 percent acreage Ameripol amount ANDERSON answer B. F. Goodrich BRANDES BRIDGEWATER Buna rubber butadiene butyl rubber capacity cents a pound CHAIRMAN COLLYER commercial committee cost of producing course crop crude rubber David Spence defense deresinated emergency experience FARRISH figures gentlemen Germany going Government growing guayule rubber guayule shrub Hevea rubber increase Intercontinental Rubber light aging long tons MASON material McCallum Mexico months natural rubber necessary Neoprene nursery possible pounds per acre practical present production of synthetic quantity question reclaimed rubber resin rubber content rubber industry rubber manufacturers rubber supply Salinas Salinas Valley Secretary JONES seed seedlings Senator AUSTIN Senator CHANDLER Senator DOWNEY Senator GURNEY Senator HILL Senator HOLMAN Senator KILGORE Senator THOMAS Senator WALLGREN Spence supply of rubber synthetic rubber thing THOMAS of Utah tion tons a day tons of rubber United
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Page 56 - The Germans made it from coal and lime, making a gas which they converted back into the raw material from which they made their Buna rubber. That rubber has been used in this country in a small way. It has been a specialty product for several years. About a year and a half ago, I think it was, we got the German people to send over some Buna rubber to be experimented with here in making tires, and the various rubber companies experimented with that rubber, some of them reporting success and others...
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 9 - Guayule is a rubber producing, desert 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 about 4,000 long tons. Production facilities are being increased and production in 1942 may amount to 7,000 long tons. The entire Mexican production is from wild guayule, and the output is now restricted by the Mexican Government in...
Page 44 - First, the tread and side wall, which is over 45 percent of all the rubber consumed in the country, we are actually going to try to sell tires in July, and they are going out with our company's name, and that means that those tires are going to be competitive with other tires. The complete replacement of rubber still needs considerable work before that can be done. We have made tires; we have tested tires; but whether it is going to take 6 months or a year or even 2 years to make them fully competitive...
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Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter called the "Secretary") is authorized — (1) To acquire by purchase, license, or other agreement, the right to operate under processes or patents relating to the growing and harvesting of guayule or the extraction of rubber therefrom, and such properties, processes, records, and data as are necessary to such operation, including but not limited...
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...