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307 Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. Adams, Ansel, 201–202 Addicott, Frederick, 201 agricultural science, role in geopolitics, 6–11, 45, 170, 172, 196–197, 198, 224–225, 227–228, 234 Africa, rubber projects in, 4–5, 26, 29. See also Edison, Thomas A., plant explorers; Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, operations in Liberia; Madagascar; South Africa Alabama, rubber research in, 211 Alaska, rubber research in, 162 Aldrich, Edward B., 24 Aldrich, Nelson W., 24 American Chemical Society, 32, 43, 44, 48, 70, 165 American International Corporation, 35 Anderson, Chandler P., 38 Anderson, Hugh H., 21, 152–153, 219–220, 230, 231, 235, 281n63, 282n71, 301n99 Anderson, John Z., 134, 136, 137, 142, 216, 220, 275n127 Andresen, August, 192 Apios tuberosa, as potential rubber source, 148 Arizona, rubber research in, 50, 51, 58, 128, 158, 161, 164, 200, 213, 233. See also Carnegie Institution of Washington; Intercontinental Rubber Company, operations in Arizona; Poston War Relocation Center Army Industrial College, 47, 131, 139 Army-Navy Munitions Board, 47, 85, 184 Arnold, Thurman, 176, 183 Associated Farmers of California, 203, 205 Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops, 305n27 Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries, 230 Atwater, Henry G., 136, 137, 143–144 Auschwitz, 163 Australia, rubber research in, 233 Babcock, Earl B., 122 Babcock, Earnest B., 201 Bahamas, rubber research in, 52, 163 Bakersfield, CA. See Kern County, CA; Emergency Rubber Project, operations in Central Valley, CA Ball, George, 182 Bard, CA, USDA Plant Introduction Station, 65, 66, 111, 127–128 308 Index Baruch, Bernard, 17, 88, 163, 165, 191–192, 220, 235, 293n101; and interwar preparedness issues, 46, 129, 131, 135, 138; and the IRC, 24–26, 111–112, 115, 117; and World War I preparedness issues, 35–36 Baruch Rubber Survey Committee and Report, 157–158, 165, 168, 190–192, 196, 197, 198, 293n102, 293n103 Beach, David Sherman, 302n103 Bennett, Hugh Hammond, 278n7 Benney, William, 89–93 Benson, Ezra Taft, 192 B. F. Goodrich Company, 26, 141, 147, 163, 174, 223 Big Science, 7, 148–149 biotechnology, 13, 233–235 bioterrorism, 12, 234 Bitting, Clarence, 183, 195 blackroot, as potential rubber source, 91, 97, 98 Board of Economic Warfare, 165 Bogert, Marston, 32 Bolzendahl, F. W., 66 Bonner, James F., 152, 229–230 Border Rubber Company, 67 Boyce Thompson Institute, 165, 286n126 braceros, 152 Brandes, Elmer W., 137, 143, 161, 284n93 Brazil, 4–6, 24, 29, 37, 132, 133. See also Ford Motor Company, operations in Brazil Breen, Edward, 186 Bressman, Earl, 131, 181–182, 196 British rubber industry, 29, 53–55, 72. See also plantation rubber industry; Stevenson Plan Brown, George Jr., 230, 231 Brown, Jerry, 231 Buchanan, R. E., 173–174, 195 Burbank, Luther, 75–76, 91–92, 104, 119, 122, 259n4 Burke County, GA, 211, 212, 300n73 Bush, Vannevar, 182, 227 Butler, Hugh, 210 cactus, as potential rubber source, 40 California, rubber research in, 40–42, 50, 116, 128, 158, 213, 233. See also Bard, CA; Emergency Rubber Project, operations in Central Valley; Emergency Rubber Project, operations in Salinas; Intercontinental Rubber Company, operations in Salinas, CA; Intercontinental Rubber Company, operations in Valley Center, CA; Kern County, CA; Manzanar War Relocation Center ; Salinas, CA; Santa Maria Valley, CA; State Guayule Committee (CA) California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 152–153, 156, 199–202 Canada, rubber research in, 160, 162, 163, 194–195 Cannon, Clarence, 134, 217 Carnahan, George H., 37–38, 46, 59, 65, 68–71, 88–90, 111–118, 135–136, 152, 263n59 Carnahan, T. L., 113, 269n27 Carnegie Institution of Washington, 26, 40, 51, 66, 257n103 Carranza, Venustiano, 22, 38 Carter, Jimmy, 304n14 Carver, George Washington, 148 Castilloa elastica, 4–5, 64, 274n108 Caswell, John, 213, 218 Catton, Bruce, 186 Chapman Field (FL), 60, 61, 65, 77, 85, 122, 131, 133–134, 274n108 chemurgy/chemurgists, 10, 11, 52, 100–101, 119, 125–127, 146, 173, 178, 182, 193–197, 194, 220, 225, 266n118, 266n120. See also National Farm Chemurgic Council Chicago Tribune, 164, 285n114 Chile, rubber research in, 163 Christensen, Leo, 174, 175, 178, 191 Chrysil Rubber Association, 66 Chrysothamnus nauseosus. See rabbitbrush , rubber Churchill, Winston, 2, 54, 57 [52.54.111.228] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 14:50 GMT) Index 309 Clarkson, Grosvenor, 42 Cleland, Robert G., 248n81 Clements, Edith, 41 Clements, Frederic, 41, 66 Coachella Valley, CA, 204 Coffin, Howard, 32 cold war, 221, 223, 229 Collyer, John, 141, 218, 223 Colorado rubber plant (pinguay), 15, 26, 83, 241n29, 244n23 Compton, Karl, 157, 190, 191 Conant, James, 157, 185 Cook, O...