Word: cros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Copeland kicked off for Harvard, to the Yale 13, where McGill ran it back to the 48. Yale's offense stalled on the Harvard 47, then Ward punted to Cros by on the 20. Crosby returned the ball to the 27. Oehmler was hurt on the play, and Hallet replaced him. Joslin ran from the 33 for three to the 30 as the quarter ended...
Exit Dunlop. While Scotland's John Dunlop first thought of putting his pneumatic tires on bicycles, it took an Irishman to gaze into the spinning wheels and see a fortune. Dublin Paper Merchant Harvey Du Cros, father of three famed bicycle racers, needed only to see his sons beaten by a man on Dunlop tires before he set to work. He promptly organized a tire company, persuaded Dunlop to join him, and with classic forethought predicted in his prospectus: "The pneumatic tyre will be almost indispensable for ladies and persons with delicate nerves...
With the stamina of six-day bicycle racers, Harvey Du Cros and his sons set out to convert the British Isles, then the Continent, them the U.S. They built new factories in France, Germany, and Canada ; in seven "years the company was reorganized with $24 million capital, and John Dunlop sold his interest...
Enter Macintosh. At the dawn of the auto age, the company started its own rubber plantations in Malaya, bought textile mills to guarantee supplies of tire fabrics. But Dunlop expanded too fast, was caught in 1921's commodity collapse with a disastrously big inventory of rubber. The Du Cros regime was ousted. In went Sir Eric Geddes and Sir George Beharrell, a brilliant management team...