Download or read book Rubber written by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.