Recommended Future Role of the Federal Government with respect to Research in Synthetic Rubber.

摘要

In early 1953, the Administrator of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation submitted a program for the disposal to private industry of the synthetic rubber plants owned by the Government. This report was incorporated in proposals for legislative action transmitted by the President to the Congress in April, 1953 which in turn resulted in the enactment of the Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Act of 1953 (P.L. 205, 83rd Cong. 1st Sess.), signed by President Eisenhower on August 7, 1953. The Act provided among other things for: (a) the establishment of a Rubber Producing Facilities Disposal Commission charged with negotiating contracts of sale of synthetic rubber plants, such contracts to become effective unless disapproved by either House of Congress; (b) exclusion of the Government Laboratories at Akron from the provisions of the Act; and (c) the submission of a report from the President to the Congress at the expiration of one year after the transfer of the plants, such report to cover the Nation's rubber requirements and resources, "and the need, if any, for further research by the Government relative to the production or use of synthetic rubber and its component materials." The Disposal Commission presented its report to the Congress on January 24, 1955, setting forth the program for sale and other transfer of Government -owned rubber producing facilities.