Records of PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE RUBBER SITUATION. Accession Number: 61-20

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1 Records of PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO STUDY THE 1942 Accession Number: The records of the President's Special Committee to Study the Rubber Situation were accessioned by the National Archiv.es and placed in Record Group 220. On March 9, 1961, they were transferred to the Roosevelt Library. These records are in the public domain. Quantity: 7 feet Restrictions: These records contain material which is closed in accordance with National Archives General Restrictions. Related Materials: Pres1dent's Official File President's Secretary's File Leon Henderson Papers Oscar Cox Papers.,

2 1 SERIES I TRANSCRIPTS Verbatim Transcripts of Proceedings: August 11, 1942 August 12, 1942 August 13, 1942 August 14, 1942 August 18, 1942 August 19, 1942 August 20, 1942, 9:00 a.m. August 20, 1942, 11:00 a.m. August 20, 1942, 2:00 p.m. August 20, 1942, 3:00 p.m. August 21, 1942, 10:15 a.m. August 21, 1942, 1:40 p.m. August 24, 1942 August 25, 1942, 8:10 a.m. August 25, 1942, 9:15 a.m. August 25, 1942, 9:38 a.m. August 25, 1942, 11:00 a.m. August 25, 1942, 2:45 p.m. 2 Verbatim Transcripts of Proceedings: August 26, 1942, 10:45 a.m. August 26, 1942, 2:40 p.m. August 27, 1942, 9:45 a.m. August 27, 1942, 10:55 a.m. August 27, 1942, 2:30 p.m. August 27, 1942, 2:30 p.m. August 27, 1942, 2:40 p.m. August 27, 1942, 4:15 p.m. August 28, 1942, 10:30 a.m. August 28, 1942, 2:15 p.m. August 29, 1942, 11:30 a.m. August 29, 1942, 2:30 p.m. August 29, 1942, 3:50 p.m. August 29, 1942, 4:50 p.m. 3 Verbatim Transcripts of Proceedings (Master Copies): August 11, 1942 August 12, 1942 August 13,

3 3, cont. Verbatim Transcripts of Proceedings August 14, 1942 August 18, 1942 August 20, 1942, 11:00 a.m. August 20, 1942, 3:00 p.m. August 21, 1942, 10:15 a.m. August 21, 1942, 1:40 p.m. August 24, 1942 August 25, 1942, 8:10 a.m. August 25, 1942, 9:15 a.m. August 25, 1942, 11:00 a.m. August 25, 1942, 2:45 p.m. August 26, 1942, 10:45 a.m. August 26, 1942, 2:40 p.m. August 27, 1942, 9:45 a.m. August 27, 1942, 10:55 a.m. August 27, 1942, 2:30 p.m. August 27, 1942, 2:30 p.m. August 27, 1942, 2:40 p.m. August 27, 1945, 4:15 p.m. Miscellaneous Papers 4 Shorthand notebooks 5 Stenographic Notes (8/13/42-8/25/42) 6 Stenographic Notes (8/25/42-9/2/42) 7 Stenographic Notes (8/26/42-9/2/42) 8 SERIES II- GENERAL RECORDS Documents Volume I: Agriculture, Department of Army and Navy Munitions Attorney General Oscar Cox Defense Transportation, Office of Economic Welfare, Board of Lend Lease Administration Petroleum, Coordinator for War 2

4 8, cont. Documents Volume I, cont: Petroleum War Council Veto Message Letter of Appointment Outline of Questions Outline of Assignments Committee Assignments Patent Clearance Oaths of Office Documents Volume II: MacLeish Report Price Administration, Office of Rubber Reserve Secrecy Vice President Wallace War Production Board Newhall Lubin Documents Volume III: Past War Critical Materials Agriculture Freight Cost of Shipping Butadiene Eberstadt 9 Documents Volume IV: Synthetics Houdry Grain Carbon-Carbide Publicker Weizmann Documents Volume V: Army Needs- 7/25/42 Requirements Army Requirements Navy Requirements Maritime Commission Requirements Lend Lease Requirements Latin American Requirements Army Conservation Navy Conservation Civilian Uses for Rubber other than Tires Rubber Substitutes 3

5 10 Documents Volume VI: Senate House of Representatives Digest of Bills on Rubber Hearing Abstracts Documents Volume VII: Administration Schedule of Hearings Abstracts Leckrone Hertz Documents Volume VIII: Civilian Driving Civilian Driving-Mickey RMA Plan Eastman Importance of Automobile Need for Conservation Essential Driving Rationing All Plans Suggestions Tire Census Farm Conservation Commercial Conservation 11 SERIES III- MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS Envelope 1 Committee Printings and Notes Correspondence Memorandums Miscellaneous Papers Printed Material Envelope 2 Memorandum Notes Rubber-Defense Rubber-Economy Rubber-Production Envelope 3 Memorandum and Meeting Minutes Rubber-Problem Rubber-Production 4

6 11, cont. Envelope 3, cont.: Synthetic Rubber-Broadcasts by Fulton Lewis Jr. Envelope 4 Committee Findings and Reports Memorandum Notes and Clippings 12 Envelope 5 Correspondence Esso Laboratories-Report on Progress on Butyl Rubber and Flexon Northern Regional Research Laboratory-Butylene Glycol Butadiene Standard Oil Development Co.-Preliminary Description of a 20 ton per day Flexon Plant Esso Laboratories-Report on Processing of Synthetic Rubber Northern Regional Research Laboratory-Norepol Esso Laboratories-Report on Processing of Synthetic Rubber British Raw Materials Mission-Report on the Synthetic Rubber Position in the United States 13 SERIES IV- TECHNICAL STUDIES Package 1 Relation of Butadiene Program to Aviation Gasoline U.S. Department of Agriculture- Production of 2,3-Butylene Glycol by Fermentation of Grain Conservation of 2,3-Butylene Glycol to Butadiene Blueprints-Layout of Plant to Produce 50,000 Tons a Year of Butadiene from Butane Blueprints-Catalyst Case for Butane and Butene Dehydrogenation Statement on the Houdry Process Cooperation process for Production of Butadiene Seagram-Butadiene Plant, Capacity 20,000 Tons per Year Intelligence Report-Campaign to Stall Nationwide Gasoline Rationing Office of Petroleum Coordinator for War-War Plants Scheduled for Completion Prior to 7/1/43 5

7 14 Package 2 SAE War Engineering Board-The Automotive and Rubber Industries Committee-Interim Tires and Retreads. Vol. s I & II (2 Copies of Each) SAE War Engineering Board-The Automotive and Rubber Industries Committee-Interim Tires and Retreads. Vol. s III & IV Perbunan-Compounding and Processing Phillip s Petroleum Company s Report on Investigation of Houdry Butane-Butadiene Process 7/3-24/42 15 Package 4 Farish-Statement and Exhibits Presented to Subcommittee of Mines and Mining Committee (July 15, 1942) Farish-Statement before the Committee on Patents Frolich-Digest of Testimony before Committee on Mines and Mining Talalay-The Russian Synthetic Rubber General Electric-Electric Equipment for Synthetic Rubber Production Freemont Molasses Feed Co. Reports-May 29, May 8, September 3 Esso Laboratories-Report on Reports Submitted to Rubber Reserve Company SERIES V-MCCABE NOTES Correspondence and Reports to the Standard Oil Development Company Summary of Phillip s Investigation of Houdry Butane- Butadiene Process Esso Laboratories-Report on Production of Butadiene by Dehydrogenating Normal Butenes over Catalyst 1707 Blueprints and Photographs relating to the Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corp. Defense Plant Corp. Tables Relating to the Butadiene Pilot Plant Interrelation Between Synthetic Rubber from Petroleum and 100 Octane Aviation Gasoline 6

8 15, cont. SERIES VI-ESSELEN AND MINER NOTES Interview-Monsanto General Livingston and RR Co. Dow Styrene Raw Materials Office of Petroleum Coordinator Universal Oil Products Company Catalytic Process for Ethylbenzene Manufacture Blueprint for U.O.P. Cataltic Alkylation Process for Ethylbenzene Production Blueprints-Kopper s Plan for producing Butadiene Progress Report on Synthetic Rubber Program 16 The Dow Chemical Co.-Technical Information Relating to Ethyl Benzene and Styrene Engineering Department Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp.- Description of Styrene Esso Laboratories-Report on Proposed Manufacture of Ethylbenzene in No. 2 Ela Plant at Baton Rouge Petroleum Industry War Council SERIES VII-MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS Recycling of Scrap Rubber Stockpile Protection Latex Compounders Security Agreement Secrecy on Hearing Transcripts Tire Industry Speed Tire Tests Substitutes Scrap Used Cars Reclaim Simpson, Elliot Tire Recapping Sandals Tires German 7

9 16, cont. Australia South Africa Africa 17 Agriculture Department of Agriculture Bulletins Guayule. Report on Rubber-Appendix A (2 folders) SERIES VIII- REPORTS ON RUBBER CONSERVATION Conservation of Rubber by the Army Rubber Conservation Section Army and Navy Munitions Board-Report on Rubber Conservation. Part I Rubber Conservation Section Army and Navy Munitions Board-Report on Rubber Conservation. Parts II & III 18 SERIES IX-SIMPSON FILES Statements to the Press on the Rubber situation made by Elliot E. Simpson from March 7, 1942 to present (August 22, 1942) Proceedings of the House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (3 folders) 19 SERIES X-CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS AND REPORTS 29 bound Congressional hearings and reports on the Rubber Situation 20 SERIES XI-REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT FROM THE RUBBER SURVEY COMMITTEE Dr. Conant s 3 rd Draft: Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V 21 SERIES XII-DOCUMENTS Tribune Chemical Foundation Thiokol 8

10 21, cont. Butyl Dr. M. B. Cook Flexon Norepol Whey Jeans Naftalin Aviation Gasoline Quick Butadiene Gyro Process Company Gary Synthetic Rubber Kopper s Chemical Company Universal Oil Dow Chemical Company Styrene Polymerization 22 SERIES XIII-OVERSIZED MATERIAL Report on the Butadiene Process of the Publicker Commercial Alcohol Company The Story of the Houdry Catalytic Process Progress Report of the Synthetic Rubber Program (as of August 18, 1942) Progress Report of the Synthetic Rubber Program (as of August 1, 1942) 23 SERIES XIV-FINAL REPORT Final Report-September 10, 1942 Reaction to Final Report-Newspaper Clippings Correspondence, Memoranda, and Clippings about Final Report (3 folders) 9