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...Spanish manager of Bilbao's largely German-owned Siemens electric works who had skipped to the mountains for a few days while the city was taken. "Most gratifying! On returning to my office this morning, I find everything just as before." Undamaged too was the Firestone Hispania tire factory near Galdacano, a concern in which 75% of the capital is Spanish, the rest U. S. Worst trouble was that none of the paper money in Bilbao was any good, its Rightist captors insisting that only their paper had value, and supplies of this had not yet arrived. Temporarily...
...wanted to land a job could do so." Harvard, "being hired 15% ahead of 1936." Columbia, "1937 will join 1936 and 1930 as peak years." Stanford, "50% increase in placements, salaries $105." U. S. Steel took 594 from 91 colleges, American Telephone & Telegraph 300, General Electric 700, Goodyear Tire and Firestone no each...
...instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size. A specially knitted pommel cloth was by no means the only coddling that War Admiral got. Trainer Conway had him exercised just enough to give him an appetite but not enough to tire him. Instead of two meals a day, he got snacks between meals and suppers at midnight whenever he appeared hungry. Careful stuffing raised little War Admiral's weight 100 Ib. over the winter. He finally contrived to grow from 15 hands to 15 hands, 3 inches. Listed...
...clean and roll liners at 15? an hour, ten and a half hours a day. When his boss told him two years later that $75 a month was his limit, young Tew walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. and got a better job. The first successful cord tire made in the U. S., Silvertown, was produced by Diamond as a result of a study Tew made in England of the Palmer cord tire process. In 1912 Goodrich and Diamond merged and Jim Tew began the climb that landed him in the presidency...
...America, later to join C. I. O., moved in in 1935. By the time this year's Sit-Down epidemic struck, both Akron's workers and Akron's businessmen were past the primary grades, thoroughly accustomed to the idea and practice of unionism. When Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and its U. R. W. employes came to an impasse over exclusive bargaining recognition early last March, both sides behaved calmly. Instead of sitting down, the unionists peacefully walked out. Instead of hiring strikebreakers, grizzled Harvey Firestone quietly shut down his plants. Akron remained a rock in the seething...