United States Synthetic Rubber Program, 1939-1945

Further Reading
Hugh Allen. The House of Goodyear: Fifty Years of Men and Industry. Cleveland, Ohio: Corday & Gross, 1949.

Glenn D. Babcock. History of the United States Rubber Company. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University, 1966.

Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. BFGoodrich, Tradition and Transformation, 18701995. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1996.

James D. D'Ianni. "Fun and Frustrations with Synthetic Rubber." Rubber Chemistry and Technology 50 (1977), G67G77.

R. F. Dunbrook. "Historical Review." In Synthetic Rubber, edited by G. S. Whitby, C. C. Davis, and R. F. Dunbrook, 3255. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1954.

Vernon Herbert and Attilio Bisio. Synthetic Rubber: A Project That Had to Succeed. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Frank A. Howard. Buna Rubber: The Birth of an Industry. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1947.

Alfred Lief. The Firestone Story: a History of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. New York: Whittlesey House, 1951.

Peter J. T. Morris. The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.

Peter J. T. Morris. "Synthetic Rubber: Autarky and War" in The Development of Plastics, edited by S.T.I. Mossman and P.J.T. Morris, 5469. Cambridge, England: Royal Society of Chemistry, 1994.

Maurice Morton. "A History of Synthetic Rubber." In History of Polymer Science and Technology, edited by Raymond B. Seymour, 22538. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1982.

Pioneer and Pacemaker: The Story of Firestone. Akron, Ohio: Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, 1953.

Charles S. Popple. Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) in World War II. New York: Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), 1952.

Rubber from Oil (Reprinted from The Lamp). New York: Standard Oil Co., 1944.

M. Smith, Ed. A Man of Ideas, The Biography of Dr. Waldo L. Semon. Cleveland, Ohio: Geon Company, 1993.

Peter H. Spitz. Petrochemicals: The Rise of an Industry. New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1988.

Synthetic Rubber; History and Importance Today. New York: United States Rubber Company, 1947.

Charles Morrow Wilson. Trees and Test Tubes: The Story of Rubber. New York: H. Holt, 1943.

 

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