Strategic and Critical Materials, (guayule Rubber): Hearing, December 10, 1941U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - Guayule |
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... methods of compounding and using guayule in rubber manufacturing processes ; ( 7 ) To improve methods of processing guayule and to obtain and hold patents on such new processes ; and ( 8 ) To sell guayule or rubber processed from ...
... methods of compounding and using guayule in rubber manufacturing processes ; ( 7 ) To improve methods of processing guayule and to obtain and hold patents on such new processes ; and ( 8 ) To sell guayule or rubber processed from ...
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... methods of conserving the use of new rubber , the most im- portant is by increased retreading of tires . As much as 115,000 long tons of rubber might be saved yearly by this method , with little new investment of capital in retreading ...
... methods of conserving the use of new rubber , the most im- portant is by increased retreading of tires . As much as 115,000 long tons of rubber might be saved yearly by this method , with little new investment of capital in retreading ...
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... 46 percent when based on actual consumption in June 1941 , the month preceding the effective date of the O. P. M. order . vances in methods of cultivation ; the development of special 12 STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MATERIALS ( GUAYULE RUBBER )
... 46 percent when based on actual consumption in June 1941 , the month preceding the effective date of the O. P. M. order . vances in methods of cultivation ; the development of special 12 STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL MATERIALS ( GUAYULE RUBBER )
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... methods ; and David Spence , outstanding chemist , a firm believer in guayule , whose researches greatly extended the industrial application of guayule rubber . Many others also cooperated to bring the art of producing guayule rubber to ...
... methods ; and David Spence , outstanding chemist , a firm believer in guayule , whose researches greatly extended the industrial application of guayule rubber . Many others also cooperated to bring the art of producing guayule rubber to ...
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... methods by which guayule might be used as a source of rubber in case of emergency . No plan has been adopted and no Government assistance is being given to individuals desiring to plant guayule . JULY 16 , 1941 . Senator DOWNEY . Mr ...
... methods by which guayule might be used as a source of rubber in case of emergency . No plan has been adopted and no Government assistance is being given to individuals desiring to plant guayule . JULY 16 , 1941 . Senator DOWNEY . Mr ...
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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...