Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Gregg Mitman

Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

Gregg Mitman

11 hours, 47 minutes first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

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In the early 1920s, Americans owned eighty percent of the world's automobiles and consumed seventy-five percent of the world's rubber. But only one percent of the world's rubber grew under the US flag, creating a bottleneck that hampered the natio...

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