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THE author of this excellent book was, until his retirement in 1945, vice-president of the Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), of which he was principal executive for more than twenty-five years, directing and organising research, technical development and other related activities. He is probably the only man who is in a position to tell the story of the birth and development of the synthetic rubber industry in the United States, and he does so with a detachment which makes one almost forget that he was in the centre of the stage during the whole of the time and that, but for his faith and persistence, synthetic rubber might not have been produced in the United States in time to prevent a calamity.
Buna Rubber
The Birth of an Industry. By Frank A. Howard. Pp. xii + 307. (New York : D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc. ; London : Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1947.) 21s. net.
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LONG, C. Buna Rubber. Nature 162, 637 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162637a0
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