Rubber: An American Industrial HistoryMcFarland, 2014 M01 10 - 244 pages The rubber industry was born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies. As this history details, many of the great rubber barons--Charles Goodyear, Harvey Firestone, B.F. Goodrich, F.A. Seiberling--found themselves or their companies in bankruptcy courts. Fortunately, the industry has always proven as elastic as its product. From the early search for an American location to process the rubber of the tropics to the collapse of the industry, this is the story of rubber in America. |
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Introduction | 3 |
1 The Fall of Rubbers Rome | 7 |
2 The Road to Akron | 25 |
3 The Rubber Industry Comes to Akron | 42 |
4 The Greatest of Them AllThe New England Rubber Barons | 53 |
5 Seiberling Brings Goodyear to Town | 63 |
6 A New Baron in Town | 72 |
11 Social and Community Reforms | 154 |
12 The Taming of the Lions1930s | 161 |
13 The World Turned Upside Down | 173 |
14 War and Synthetic Rubber | 184 |
15 The Passing of the Old Guard The Postwar Rubber Industry | 195 |
16 The Four Horsemen | 203 |
17 Back to the Future | 216 |
Timeline | 225 |
7 The Rubber Boom and Rubber Cartels | 85 |
8 The War and Auto Sales Change the Industry | 116 |
9 Plantation Owners Golden Years of the Barons | 128 |
10 Rubber Pro fits and the Roaring Twenties | 144 |
Chapter Notes | 227 |
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