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The author presents the history of the so-called 'Polish formula' for producing synthetic rubber and describes the role that it played in the American synthetic rubber programme of 1942-1945. The paper is based on an analysis of U.S. Senate documents and reports from the period of World War II that deal with the issue, as well as of American publications from the 1940s until the present day. The Polish...