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...told Rubber Coordinator Arthur B. Newhall, a former Goodrich official, that he had put together natural gas, wood pulp, coal, lamp black and other ingredients into a rubber-substance which had already given 10,000 miles of service as a tire retread. He had 50 pounds of it in his car, right outside the building. But his pilot plant back home, worse luck, had just been smashed by robbers and couldn't be inspected by government experts just then. For Coordinator Newhall the amateur rubber-makers pose a problem: among many crackpot processes, is there one he dare...
...Desiree le Beau is working on a new process to reclaim synthetic rubber for reuse. (Methods used to reclaim natural rubber won't work on synthetics, where each type must be differently treated.) But rubber experts are skeptical of most inventions or improvements. Said President L. Collyer of Goodrich last week: "No laboratory or garden miracle that may be performed now can be capitalized in time to lessen in any degree the necessity that faces this nation today of taking every rubber-saving step that...
...bombers struck at Paris, at the Gnôme-Rhône engine works and the old Goodrich rubber plant at Gennevilliers. They whacked at the big Diesel engine plant at Augsburg, at naval installations at Kiel...
Other towns are almost as bad. Houston police caught a ring (including several leading citizens) that had already sold over 300 tires. In Manhattan a three-hour nose-around uncovered four places with "Yeah -all the tires you want." Chicago racketeers have house-to-house "salesmen," armed with phony Goodrich order blanks, who get suckers to put downpayments on new tires, then never show up again...
Allied Chemical $13.67 $1.35 $9.67 American Locomotive 5.33 1.30 4.12 American Woolen 30.50 5.00 11.23 Corn Products 3.59 0.95 3.38 Crane Co. 5.36 1.70 1.18 Douglas Aircraft 36.22 3.00 30.29 Goodrich Co. 8.29 4.60 5.02 Goodyear Tire & Rubber 12.80 3.40 4.68 Mack Truck 9.21 1.67 4.93 Montgomery Ward 5.11 0.96 4.01 National Cash Register 1.02 0.74 2.00 National Dairy 1.43 0.57 1.97 Sears Roebuck 9.62 1.17 6.35 United Aircraft 23.29 1.88 6.29 United Fruit 2.22 1.03 4.25 United States Steel...