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Amsterdam THIS Rotterdam BABY ALWAYS NEEDS NEW SHOES! PC VOL. LXIV-NO. 3 BR No BELO OF Sedao CZECHOSLOVAKIA Reims Bruene Troyes 8 X FRANCE Why Phillips is Today One of the Country's Greatest Producers of Butadiene for Synthetic Rubber THE MAGAZINE OF SIGMA CHI 600 The fast-rolling truck pictured above That American industry has been is one of the famous "Red Ball Ex- Phillips able to meet this terrific demand for press" that kept the supplies rolling all-important truck tires is due, to a across France in the wake of the vic- great extent, to companies like torious Yanks. Phillips. But that truck also represents one of the biggest headaches tire men- 66 For long before Pearl Harbor, and oil men-have had to face in Phillips scientists foresaw the possi- this war! bilities of butadiene in producing Magazine CHARLES G. ROSS synthetic rubber. As a result, when You see, our synthetic rubber pro- the blow fell at Pearl Harbor, Phillips Missouri"o5 gram has had to overcome more than the lack of great research and production facilities were ready raw rubber from the Jap-held East Indies. It has had to step into the breach. to cope with a fantastic demand for tires for Army trucks and other vehicles. Today, the Phillips 66 Shield stands for one of SIGMACHI Takes the Oath as President Truman's America's leading producers of butadiene for syn- Why is that demand fantastic? Just imagine speed- thetic rubber as well as a great producer of 100- Press Secretary ing along roads pitted by shellfire and sprinklea Octane Aviation Fuel, and an almost endless list of with shrapnel hub-deep in mud, or rutted in newer and better products from petroleum gases frozen ridges. Under those terrible conditions, tires and petroleum. have become frayed and useless at an appalling rate. PHILLIPS PETROLEUM Co., Bartlesville, Okla. FOR VICTORY Buy U.S. War Bonds and Stamps JULY-AUGUST, 1945 64th July No. August Year 1945 3 PHILL PS PETROLEUM COMPANY Kenneth S. Adams, Alpha Xi (Kansas) 1921, President

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