JUNE 5, 2014, ON A ROLL-- July 1942. Conserving rubber. This truck tire has run 146,000 miles. It is now planned to retread it with a life expectancy of at least half the original mileage. The tire is size 9.75 X 20, weighs 129 pounds and was run on an air pressure of 70 pounds.
"Miss Jean Spanitz, stenographer in the Division of Motor Transportation poses with the tire." Albert Freeman, OWI.
Big old tire. There simply were no new tires for most civilians and businesses. You had to retread.
JUNE 2, 2014: C U LATER: 1942-- November 1942: "Conveyor belts carrying copper ore through a tunnel at the Magna mill of the Utah Copper Co.. Its plants and Magne & Arthur in Utah are treating vast quantities of the copper so vital for war purposes." Andreas Feininger, OWI
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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