Rubber from wheat was the new battle cry, and in Congress the farm bloc gave tongue for all it was worth. Wheat can be made into alcohol, which can be made into butadiene for buna-S.

Buna-S, 20-30% longer wearing than natural rubber, is still four times as expensive. But U. S. technology may well bring it down to a competitive position. To get it down.

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 ...