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...newsmen. "No, not a damn." Then he remarked, casually, pontifically, that Hoover was the man (see p. 7). Then he remarked that he and son Edsel expected to fly to South America this summer in a Ford-Stout plane. Again, that he and Thomas A. Edison were working on rubber raising (he had said this before, but the public forgets). Then he said "we are building a new Diesel engine-burning crude oil instead of gasoline-and we hope it will deliver one horsepower for each pound it weighs. I am personally laying it out although a crowd...
...Seiberling was once the president and life of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ; he was one of Akron's rubber barons...
...those days, Mr. Davis was a director of the U. S. Rubber Co. The intention of the men who had incorporated the U. S. Rubber Co. in 1892 had been to merge the many rubber manufacturers of the U. S. They did gather together into an efficient union scattered makers of diverse rubber products in the East, but they could not persuade the individualistic Akron barons to merge...
...Davis made a trip to the Orient & South Sea Islands. Among the Sunda Islands he recognized ideal climate for rubber tree cultivation. In Sumatra he developed rubber plantations. Others, notably Firestone Tire & Rubber, have followed since...
...Davis became a rich man-although not so rich as Mr. Seiberling. He sold his interests in U. S. Rubber, and with his money prospected for oil in Texas. He lest all except faith in Texas oil. He called on his friend for a loan, and promptly got $57,000. Then he struck oil, made...