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...Akron last week, Chairman Litchfield announced that work had begun on a $5,000,000 tire factory on the duchess' old land. When finished, it will turn out some 600 tires a day, provide jobs for 500 Luxembourg workers...
Like many another U.S. businessman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s Chairman Paul W. Litchfield was eager to start producing in Europe's prized hard-currency markets. The Netherlands was out of the question, since Litchfield's arch rival, Goodrich, already had a plant there. So was Belgium, which has two tire plants of its own. With the doleful expression of a jilted suitor, Rubberman Litchfield turned his eyes to the tiny (pop. 300,000) Grand Duchy of Luxembourg...
...Litchfield's men mustered some powerful arguments. Goodyear, they said, was after no new markets; it simply wanted to sell tires in Europe for local currencies instead of dollars-and thus help conserve scarce continental dollars. Furthermore, they argued, a Goodyear plant would be healthy for the Benelux economy, giving a new source of employment. And local revenues would increase still further when Goodyear's plant started buying such Benelux raw materials as rubber from the Belgian Congo and the former Netherlands East Indies, and rayon and cotton cord from Belgium and The Netherlands. Another potent argument...
Married. Jacque Mercer, 18, Atlantic City's "Miss America" for 1949; and Douglas Cook, 20, her high-school beau; in a surprise wedding in her home town, Litchfield Park, Ariz, (see PEOPLE...
Miss Arizona, trim (5 ft. 4 in., 106 lbs.), brunette Jacque Mercer, a rancher's daughter from Litchfield, was crowned Miss America of 1949. She won over a field of 52, after preliminary victories in the bathing-suit division and talent class (she wowed them with a dramatic reading of the death scene from Romeo and Juliet). Her prizes: a $5,000 scholarship (which she hopes to take at Stanford), a $3,000 Nash sedan. Her plans: "Marriage first, a career second...