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Fifty-year-old Sir Eric Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...
...rubber industry is showing improvement in England, but what the trend of rubber will be I cannot say. I look for considerable fluctuation over the next six months. The demand for tires in England is increasing all the time. Our January business this year was larger than that of last year...
...Chairman also of the Dunlop Rubber Co. (and Imperial Airways, Ltd.) in England. In 1923 he was President of the Association of Trade Protection Societies of the U. K.; in 1923-24 of the Federation of British Industries. During the War he gained recognition by putting the British and French railroads on an efficient operating basis...
...final session, Crosby, the rangy Freshman wing, started the winners on the scoring path again with two well placed drives which found the Eli net before the goal guard could set himself Stanley finished the counting for the Crimson Freshmen when he drove the rubber past Kaehrle in the middle of the last session. In a last minute drive the losers found the Harvard cage twice to finish the evening's scoring. Captain Cady, of the Yale sextet, was carried from the ice just before the final whistle with a badly injured leg, after playing a brilliant game...
Tire prices were fixed just before Jan. 1 at about 40% higher than prevailed last summer. Last week two large manufacturers announced reductions. The list of the United States Rubber & Tire Co. dropped 10% on first line tires, 3½% to 7½% on second line makes. President Harvey Firestone of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. ordered a 5% to 12% abatement in his first line prices...