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OCR Page 1 of 95Amsterdam
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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