Rubber
Subtitle: an American industrial history
By: Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780786469987
Subjects: Rubber industry and trade; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1.The Fall of Rubber's Rome; title: 2.The Road to Akron; title: 3.The Rubber Industry Comes to Akron; title: 4.The Greatest of Them All; title: The New England Rubber Barons; title: 5.Seiberling Brings Goodyear to Town; title: 6.A New Baron in Town; title: 7.The Rubber Boom and Rubber Cartels; title: 8.The War and Auto Sales Change the Industry; title: 9.Plantation Owners; title: Golden Years of the Barons; title: 10.Rubber Profits and the Roaring Twenties; title: 11.Social and Community Reforms; title: 12.The Taming of the Lions; title: 1930s; title: 13.The World Turned Upside Down; title: 14.War and Synthetic Rubber; title: 15.The Passing of the Old Guard; title: The Postwar Rubber Industry; title: 16.The Four Horsemen; title: 17.Back to the Future.