Report of the Rubber Survey Committee: September 10, 1942U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942 - 75 páginas |
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additional adequate agencies alcohol armed services atoms aviation gasoline butadiene from grain butadiene from petroleum butadiene plants butane Butyl rubber butylene butylene glycol Chairman of WPB chemical chloroprene civilian driving civilian needs civilian passenger car Committee recommends Committee's complete construction critical materials crude rubber delay Divinyl equipment estimated experience Flexon Government governmental guayule industry isobutylene isoprene long tons manufacture of butadiene manufacture of synthetic miles molecules months nation nationwide natural rubber necessary needs for rubber Neoprene operation percent Petroleum Coordinator polymerization plants possible present program priorities processing arts Production Board production of butadiene production of synthetic recapping program reclaimed rubber recom refinery conversion program Rubber Administrator rubber reclaiming rubber required rubber substitutes rubber-like schedule scrap rubber short tons shortage speed stockpile styrene supply of rubber synthetic materials synthetic program synthetic rubber program technical Thiokol tion tire replacement transportation United War Production Board
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Página 23 - Of all critical and strategic materials, rubber is the one which presents the greatest threat to the safety of our Nation and the success of the Allied cause.
Página 40 - ... aviation gasoline program. With the aid of our experts we have examined carefully into this problem and consulted many technologists in various oil companies as well as discussing the matter with the officials of the Office of Petroleum Co-ordinator. It is our conclusion that, while the possibility of a conflict between the two programs does exist, it need not become serious if the possibility is recognized and if the administration of these two closely related enterprises is properly integrated....
Página 6 - Let there be no doubt that only actual needs, not fancied wants, can, or should, be satisfied. To dissipate our stocks of rubber is to destroy one of our chief weapons of war. We have the choice! Discomfort or defeat. There is no middle course.
Página 5 - Tons Unless adequate new supplies (natural or artificial) can be obtained in time, the total military and export requirements alone will exhaust our crude stocks before the end of next summer. Tires on civilian cars are wearing down at a rate eight times greater than they are being replaced. If this rate continues, by far the larger number of cars will be off the road next year and in 1944 there will be an all but complete collapse of the 27,000,000 passenger cars in America. We are faced with certainties...
Página 38 - ... examining tires and advising as to their maintenance. Such an organization could be created almost overnight. Rationing boards would then be governed by the reports presented to them by those requiring tire recapping or repairs from the information furnished by these examiners. The committee suggests that these examinations be governed by a mileage total instead of elapsed time.
Página 6 - Gas rationing is the only way of saving rubber. Every way of avoiding this method was explored, but it was found to be inescapable. This must be kept in mind: The limitation...
Página 43 - Administrator, about six months hence, in the light of the situation which exists regarding the best technical process then proven for the production of butadiene from grain, and in the light of the need for additional Buna S then estimated, proceed with the erection of the 27,000-ton butadiene plant from grain and the associated polymerization plant.
Página 40 - Therefore, until more experience has been gained by the operation of one of the large-scale units at each step, we must consider that a considerable element of risk is present in the picture. The importance of completing rapidly one full-scale plant using each process and the erection of pilot plants is considered in the technical section of this report. The committee wishes to emphasize once again at this point that the whole question of obtaining synthetic rubbers in adequate amounts in 1943 hinges...
Página 22 - ... dozen years. To compress it into less than two years is an almost superhuman task. Our Committee is convinced that the Government's present program is technically sound. From this time on the important thing is to get on with it without further delay. In drawing up the recommendations which follow the Committee has sought to find a basis upon which the entire nation can go forward together, uniting our energies against the enemy instead of dissipating them in domestic wrangling. It appreciates...
Página 5 - We find the existing situation to be so dangerous that unless corrective measures are taken immediately this country will face both a military and civilian collapse.