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Before Pearl Harbor, ninety-eight percent of our rubber came from Far East. This great source of supply has been cut off as the Malayas, Netherlands, East Indies, Ceylon and other East Indian sources fell, one by one, into Japanese hands. Japan, grasping for world control, hopes to gain it largely through control of the world's rubber supply. Rubber is one of the stakes--and one of the mightiest weapons of modern war

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