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...destroyers are parceled out all over the place-to such firms as Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. of Chickasaw, Ala., Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Consolidated Steel Corp. at Orange, Tex. Exclusive of combat types, Chairman Vinson's summary listed 1,770 other craft, ranging from 564 rubber boats (built by Goodyear, presumably for Marine landing parties) to lighters, harbor tugs and minesweepers. Summarizing this intelligence, Carl Vinson announced that during 1940 the Navy had set down $6,558,068,570 in contracts for 2,048 assorted craft (including small boats). The Navy had also spent $75,060,610 for 189 auxiliaries...
...national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear's Paul Litchfield were just white ties in a white-tied sea. It was probably the greatest galaxy of industrial power and talent ever gathered in one room...
...Crude Brazilian smoking methods require 30 days to make a bolacha; East Indian methods, ten. Remedy: import from U. S. thousands of machines (cost: $15 each) recommended by Goodyear experts to speed up processing...
...better bet, looked dubious; but Vargas was confident. That he had rubber-worried Uncle Sam behind him to some extent was indicated by the fact that at Manaus he received exhaustive reports from experts of the U. S. Department of Agriculture working in conjunction with private experts from Goodyear. In Belem, Vargas lunched with John Ingle, head of Goodyear's Crude Rubber Division, who flew there from Akron as guest of Vargas' golf partner, Brazil's dynamic, smart, supersalesman, Valentim F. Boucas. Observers thought Goodyear would probably accept an invitation to establish an experimental station...
...voting power in the average large corporation is in the hands of not much over 1% of the shareholders. But some of the biggest and best-known corporations are exceptions (i.e., widely held, without visible centralized control): A. T. & T., Anaconda, Bethlehem Steel, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Goodyear, R. C. A., U. S. Steel, Pennsylvania Railroad...