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Killed in Action. James Dinsmore Tew Jr., 28, son of the retired president of B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co.; over Malta with the R.A.F...
...lure tourists. Enough crude rubber is stored in Mexican tire factories to keep them running as usual through 1942. Made of guayule rubber, with small amounts of Brazilian crude, these tires are the same kind the U.S. may eventually get. But even the best of them-General Popo, Goodrich Euzcadi-are none too good. Said an amiable Mexican: "They don't wear as long-but then, you don't pay as much for them...
January sales of the Big Four rubber companies (Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone, U.S.) were at record or near-record levels. Firestone shareholders were dazed by their chairman's glowing descriptions of ten new plants and additions. General Tire & Rubber, reporting a 61% increase in 1941 sales, told its stockholders "there is no occasion for fear and panic...
...work is rubber. Biggest surprise is Firestone's $20,000,000 order for 40-mm. Bofors anti-aircraft gun mounts and carriages. Weeks ahead on this contract, Firestone is also turning out machine-gun clips, other metal war goods. Goodyear is making sub-assemblies for Martin bombers. Goodrich makes fuel tanks and operates a $35,000,000 ordnance plant in Texas. U.S. Rubber makes zippers ("Kwik") for uniforms and operates an $86,000,000 arms plant in Iowa...
...Intercontinental's first big customer around 1910 (when tree rubber was $2.07 a lb.) was Diamond Rubber Co., later bought by Goodrich...