Rubber Act of 1942 outlines agency to secure rubber supply
The Third District Congressman announces passage in the House of a Rubber Act of 1942 to create a Rubber Supply Agency headed by a presidential director with Senate advice. The act authorizes loans, plant acquisition, contracts, and a research staff to develop synthetic rubber from agricultural and forest products, prioritizing grain alcohol as a key feedstock.
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Karl Stefani
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Texas
War Production Board
Capitol
Third
Middle West
Stefan
United States
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Standards
Pearl Harbor
Sible
Europe
Rubber Reserve Co
Nebraska
Harry B. Coffee
Congress
What You Buy With WAR BONDS
The article notes improved gas masks issued by the Chemical Warfare Branch of the War Department. The pictured "can" and elephant nose mask costs about $9.25 each, with two masks purchasable for an $18.75 War Bond. It urges buying War Bonds at banks or post offices and donating at least ten percent of income each pay period.
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U.S. Treasury Department
Nebraska farmer seeks markets for state products after war
Born in Tobias Nebraska laborer army captain in AEF house superintendent plant manager in a creamery spent most of his life finding markets for Nebraska farm products believes in protection of private business and property opposes political pressure groups favors use of farm products for making industrial alcohol rubber and explosives now plastics and motor fuel after the war.
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Tobias
Nebraska
A.E.F
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Adam GY Bare
Chemical Warfare Branch
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U.S. Senator
Nebraska Agriculture
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Chadron
Polk County
Hackberry
State Superintendent OF Public Instruction
Wayne O. Reed
Barton L. Kline
Charles W. Taylor
P. T. Johnson
Conrad Jacobson
Lowell S. Devoe
Ray Thomas
N. P. Petersen
Lester H. Anderson
Olive M. McBeth
Polk County Rural Public Power District
Merwin D. Carlson
Geo. F. Buchta
M. A. Larson
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Railway Commission