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Deep was the dent made by the collapse of crude rubber prices in the 1928 earnings reports of U. S. tire companies (TIME, Aug. 27). Had January-June deficits been continued into the end of 1928 and 1929, many an Akron executive must have felt it his duty to warn his family that a Spectre loomed not far ahead...
January-June July-December Fisk Rubber Co..-$8,483,134 +$691,882 U. S. Rubber Co. .-$14,084,269 +$3,303,014 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. +$574,199 +$10,253,644 B. F. Goodrich Co.-$1,574,889 +$5,087,892 Other 1928 figures, made public last week...
...tired invalid, Her Majesty sought the sixpenny book counter, picked out The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. Dell; also four of prolific Edgar Wallace's blood-drenched thrillers: The Flying Fifty-Five, The Missing Million, Room 13 and A King by Night. She bought a thrip'ny rubber sponge and a thripiny packet of nail polish...
Cocoa Exchange. The Manhattan Cocoa Exchange transactions are about twice as large as transactions on all other cocoa exchanges combined, with London and Liverpool exchanges ranking next in size. It was originally (1925) planned as a cocoa and rubber exchange, but the rubber men did not come in and now have their own exchange. Outstanding furnishings on the rather sparsely equipped Exchange floor include a large battery of telephones and a brass-rail circle occupied by camp-chairs on which the traders perch. Compared to the Wall Street Exchange, there is a noticeable absence of fury, frenzy; the building...
...covering the various occupations in which men labor, you can look along either line--vertical or horizontal--and find a given position at any given point. We shall find, for example, the sales manager for the manufacturing company which makes household furniture. We can find the accountant for the rubber factory...