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The rapid rise of the petrochemical industry was unique in the history of industrial innovation. The circumstances: shift to new, abundantly available raw materials, chemical engineering advancements and U.S. government investment in novel chemical plants during World War II. All were certainly propitious. And so a new industry came into being and experienced double digit growth in the 1950–1970 period. But then it ran into difficulties. And it became just another industry.
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Spitz, P.H. (2019). Epilogue. In: Primed for Success: The Story of Scientific Design Company. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12314-7_14
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