@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt5hhx8h.8, ISBN = {9780813544830}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhx8h.8}, abstract = {In November 1922, eight days after British rubber producers announced a new plan to restrict rubber exports and raise rubber prices, an official in the U.S. Department of War fired off a memo to his colleagues that decried the British action as “one of the most violent economic wars” the country had ever faced.¹ The British rubber producers’ scheme, known as the Stevenson Plan, came to be one of the most significant issues in American foreign and trade policy of the mid-1920s. It also sparked another burst in the American search for a domestic rubber crop, for the episode demonstrated}, bookauthor = {MARK R. FINLAY}, booktitle = {Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security}, pages = {45--73}, publisher = {Rutgers University Press}, title = {Domestic Rubber Crops in an Era of Nationalism and Internationalism}, year = {2009} }