Rubber

<p> 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.</p><p> 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.</p>