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Rubber From Cryptostegia In 1944

(Editor's Note: Following is the second of a series of six dispatches

on the prospects of increased natural rubber from Latin America, based

on Mr. Lander’s recent 12,000-mile tour of Haiti, Brazil and Bolivia.)

By WILLIAM H. LANDER

(United Press Staff Correspondent)

WASHINGTOIN—(UP)—With the blessings of President Roosevelt,

Haiti today Is busy extracting latex from the cryptostegia plant to help

the United Nations during the emergency in natural rubber.

rew projects oi urn Kina nave

been so praised by the administra

tion. During the recent visit of

President Elle Lescot of Haiti to the

White House, Mr. Roosevelt In an

after-dinner toast said:

“Haiti Is engaged In the eulttva

tlon of a new plant, cryptostegla,

which turns out rubber I hope

that when I'm out of the White

House—I might get beaten on it

otherwise—that Congress won't put j

some kind of a tariff on rubber for

American tires, just to keep some

synthetic plants going. That would

mean that every man In the United

States who owned a car would have

to pay 50 per cent more for his rub

ber. I believe in cheap tires, and

more of them; and the only way to

get that is to use tires that are made

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How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Waterbury Democrat. (1944). Waterbury, Conn., 1944-01-11. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014085/1944-01-11/ed-1/?sp=16

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Waterbury Democrat, 1944-01-11.