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it3-ilidtob-d;h1-»hleidRUBBER HERE TO STAY TELLS GOODYEAR HEADBy JOHN F. CHESTERAssociated Press Business Editor Akron, O., Oct. 26-(AP)—Inside story of the automobile tire industry is that motorists eventually may be riding on 100 per cent synthetic rubber which can be produced for as low as ten cents a pound.This won t come about tomorrow or the next day and the 70,-000,000 passenger car tires that leaders of the tire business expect to produce in 19*6 and again in 1947 will vary anywhere from 50 to 85 per cent synthetic with the rest natural. Production is expected to drop back to 62,000,-000 in 1948 in line with demand.These figures are bigger than the industry has ever known. In 1941 the output reached 53,000,-000 against a previous all time high in 1929 ot 61.000,000.In this connection, E. J. Thomas, president of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., ,said he though^ tire fe’s1 rationing would; end by Dec; '31, while John Thomas, chairman of Firestone Tire Rubber Co., predicted tires would be plentiful early next year, perhaps by February.lemina3yteofillalheS—uiai til “« .a pe1 exha iappn tiona auded UtodajIn catio movi Aftei ed a othei Sorrlt; feren nighl Hii limii]reprc was furtt and juret Fe into CIO Ame ruptlt; York perv inplannedcom]hendeer- I The industry today is in a hap-illanfci-aa;e-It-»adthpy situation excepti for a labor situation involving the present six-hour day and union demands for a 30-hour week aud a 30 cents an hour pay increase with 10 cents extra for night work with double pay for holidays.Happy end of the situation is that as much as 300,000 tons of crude rubber have been found in one time Jap occupied areas in the Far East. Most of it in In-he I do-China. First experts into thenganmte’sarlanrungis-; aSotgrindbejn-ly-ar.5)big raw rubber areas reported that not over two pdr cent of the trees had been damaged and due to a long rest they probably would produce more than ever before.These facts came from top executives of the four biggest tire% * manufacturers in the rubber capital of the world. The statements were made to 16 newspaper reporters who have inspected indus-trail concerns in 15 cities in the last 26 days in an effort to loam the progress of reconversion.E. B. Babcock, a Firestone executive who was an assistant di-rrector of the rubber division of WPB, said improvements in the making of synthetic rubber would make it possible to make 100 per(Continued on Page 4, Column 3)
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Fri, Oct 26, 1945
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