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G row th of U.S.A. HE U.S.A. is aiming to Synthetic Rubber Proproduce synthetic rubber at duction the rate of 700,000 tons annually by the end of 1944, but this will be achieved only if the necessary construction material, labour and equipment for new plants be made available in time. The rubber and oil industries are collaborating in this effort, which, so far as 1944 is concerned, we sincerely trust, will not then be required for war purposes.
New Boom in GoodsINSISTENCE by the Hauliers' in -Transit Insurance "National Traffic Pool that all Develops goods carried for it shall be insured under some form of goods-in-transit policy, has discovered the fact that many hauliers have never before taken out policies of insurance for goods in transit and that some of them vyere entirely unaware of the existence. of any such cover. It is a fact that one insurance broker, faced with a request for a policy of this description, had
himself to inquire, from us, as to what were the terms of this class of insurance and how it could be effected. The increase in revenue from this source is gladly welcomed by insurance companies, inasmuch as it is. to—some eitent, balancing theslump in that for private cars.
C.M.U.A.Wishes Good' AS president of the
Luck to Middle East C.M.U.A., Major R. A. B. Transport . . . : Smith, MC., has written to our old friend, Major-General C. le B. Goldney, C.B.E., M_C., D. of S. and T., Middle East, conveying to him and to all ranks serving under him an assurance of the Association's confidence that the heavy responsibilities with which he is charged, however great the odds, will be successfully carried out. He compares the determination which characterizes all serving in the Middle East with the spirit in which road-transport drivers successfully carried on in Britain despite sustained attacks from the air and black-out conditions.