Make your scrap tires save lives. Life rafts like this, standard equipment on American war planes that fly over stretches of open water, have saved the lives of many air crews. Men have been rescued after floating in them for weeks. The ten pounds of rubber in one of these vitally important rafts is about the amount of rubber in a worn automobile tire ready for scrapping
Summary
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1940
Contributors
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office of War Information.
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Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain