Abstract

SWEDEN today has a strong, lusty, and growing chemical industry, an industry which has to a large degree been developed during the past five to seven years. With the advent of World War II, Sweden's position in the world of chemical industry was largely that of an importer. Her position was strikingly similar to that of the United States at the beginning of World War I and her reaction to the blockading and throttling of her normal channels of chemical supply almost identical to that of the U.S. under the same circumstances. Vital, national necessity made imperative the immediate establishment of a producing capacity for the important chemical needs of the nation. Private industry, the state, universities, and endowed and joint private and publicly supported research institutes cooperated to provide this production capacity in a few short years. Today Sweden, while still short of many important basic raw materials, ...

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