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D12974-1
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- 1942-06-15 (Creation)
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On June 15, 1942, scrap rubber collected by Boy Scouts is stacked between a brick building and the railroad tracks at Standard Oil Company on Tideflats. Mayor Harry P. Cain and a woman stand by Scouts on track. The Scouts brought in about 16 tons (32,000 lbs.) on the first day of the rubber drive. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had ordered a nationwide scrap rubber collection campaign between 6/15 12:01 a.m. and 6/30 12 midnight. Tacoma's quota was 2,000,000 lbs (1,000 tons.) The scrap rubber would be sold to the Rubber Recovery Corporation, a new government unit. Recycling was neccessary as the Japanese had cut off 92 % of the U.S.'s normal sources of crude rubber. (T. Times)
Cain, Harry P., 1906-1979; Mayors--Tacoma--1940-1950; Boy Scouts (Tacoma)--1940-1950; World War, 1939-1945--Scrap drives; Scrap drives--Tacoma--1940-1950; Tires;