Word: buna
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...create the world's greatest supply of 100-octane aviation gas. A variation of the same process is now used by Humble Oil in a new plant which makes 30,000,000 gallons of synthetic toluol a year for TNT. The cartel also gave the U.S. its buna knowledge, except the process for making rubber from coal, a Nazi Government-sponsored program...
Standard "delayed the use of buna rubber in this country because the Hitler Government did not wish to have this rubber exploited here for military reasons...
...quiz established one piece of good news, however. Patents on synthetic-rubber processes are no longer holding up the show. Thanks largely to nudges from the Department of Justice, on Dec. 19 all U.S. owners pooled their patents in Rubber Reserve Co.-including Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), whose Buna tire-rubber patents (obtained from the German Dye Trust) are the most promising...
...derived plain butadiene, a gas which is easily liquefied under pressure to form the basic building-blocks of most synthetic rubbers. Butadiene molecules were first polymerized-or built up into larger molecules-with the help of metallic sodium, making a stretchy substance which its German inventors about 1927 called Buna (Bu for butadiene, Na for sodium). It was not a very satisfactory synthetic: but better than the methyl rubber (dimethyl butadiene) of World War I, when it was said German Army trucks often had to be jacked up overnight so that their solid tires would not flatten out permanently under...
...other chief U.S. source of German income is patents. Royalties due to German firms for patents licensed to U.S. companies (including Standard Oil's right to produce synthetic rubber by the buna process) have not all been sent out of the U.S., but they were a prime source of capital for Nazi propaganda and espionage here. Now, the best that is likely to happen to their legal claimants is that their royalties will be held for them until the war is over...