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...automobiles, which can be cranked out by the millions, those for large mining trucks are labor intensive. Tires for your Chevy can be cured in as little as 15 min., for instance; that process takes as much as 12 hr. for an earthmoving truck's tires. The big manufacturers--Goodyear, Michelin and Bridgestone--don't have the production capacity to meet the rising demand...
...Many children would have gone back to their computer games. Walters went to Goodyear, and asked for free tire gauges. With 1,000 in hand, she and her Brownie group from Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, handed out flyers and gauges at the parking lot of their local commuter rail station...
...also forced a staff cut (107 to 63) in the Westminster Neighborhood Association; the WNA, funded by a mix of public and church monies, helps young people prepare for and find jobs. At the same time, local economic conditions have deteriorated. Firms that previously provided jobs in the area--Goodyear, Firestone, Ford, GM, Sears--have moved away, while the predominantly black community has grown from 30,000 in the mid-1960s to 42,000 (Hispanics, few in number in 1965, now constitute 25% of the total). On "Mother's Day," so called because it marks the arrival of welfare checks...
...ADIDAS + GOODYEAR The tire giant did more than just rubber-stamp these Adidas Tuscany shoes. The company used its Eagle F1 tire treads to inspire a new design for the soles of this trendy model...
...University of Michigan, found that for male workers ages 25 to 29 with only a high school diploma, the average wage declined 11% from 1975 to 2002. "When I graduated from high school, my classmates who didn't want to go to college could go to the Goodyear plant and buy a house and support a wife and family," says Steve Hamilton of Cornell University's Youth and Work Program. "That doesn't happen anymore." Instead, high school grads are more likely to end up in retail jobs with low pay and minimal benefits, if any. From this...