Growing American rubber strategic plan ts and the politics of national security - Finlay, Mark R.; American Council of Learned Societies (New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2009)
The American dependence on imported rubber and the lessons of revolu tion and war, 1911-1922 -- Domestic rubber crops in an era of nationali sm and internationalism -- Thomas Edison and the challenges of the new rubber crops -- The nadir of rubber crop research, 1928-1941 -- Crops i n war: rubber plant research on the grand scale -- Sustainable rubber f rom grain: the Gillette Committee and the battles over synthetic rubber -- Resistance to domestic rubber crops and the decline of emergency ru bber project -- From domestic rubber crops to biotechnology.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-306) and index.
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Keywords: Rubber industry and trade -- United States -- History; Rubber plants -- Research -- United States