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Growing American rubber

by Finlay, Mark R.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment Published by : Rutgers University Press, (New Brunswick, N.J. :) Physical details: xiii, 317 p. : ill.
Subject(s): Rubber industry and trade -- United States -- History. | Rubber plants -- Research -- United States. | Electronic books.
Year: 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-306) and index.

The American dependence on imported rubber : the lessons of revolution and war, 1911-1922 -- Domestic rubber crops in an era of nationalism and internationalism -- Thomas Edison and the challenges of the new rubber crops -- The nadir of rubber crop research, 1928-1941 -- Crops in war : rubber plant research on the grand scale -- Sustainable rubber from grain : the Gillette Committee and the battles over synthetic rubber -- Resistance to domestic rubber crops and the decline of the Emergency Rubber Project -- From domestic rubber crops to biotechnology.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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