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Article: United States Rubber Company
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- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY
In the years leading up to the formation of the United States Rubber Company, the rubber industry was marked by intense competition. Rubber footwear firms, then the industry's largest and most profitable operations, were competing through price wars. Rubber footwear turned an easy profit, and many new companies developed. The increasing number of companies influencing prices caused them to fluctuate dramatically. At the same time, a business financier named Charles Ranlett Flint (1850
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1934) was involving himself in the rubber trade between Brazil and the United States. Flint was also involved in a wide range of industries, and he was famous for ...
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