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...disaster threat" in faulty lubrication of the propeller bearings. That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom in a spray of sparks while he propellers knotted like pretzels. With sirens screaming, ambulances dashed he wreck just as Flyer Amelia stepped out white-faced. Said she: "Something must have gone wrong...
...Rubber, plucked Francis Davis from the presidency of a du Pont subsidiary (Viscoloid), told him to salvage what had been the No.1 U. S. rubber company as late as 1925. Whittling the company's debt of $81,000,000 to $53,233,000, Rubberman Davis consolidated operations, modernized tire-making methods, pushed other rubber products, went in for Lastex, a patented, elastic spun yarn which is knitted or woven into such things as sweaters, girdles, slipcovers...
Worthy as was U. S. Rubber Co.'s progress in 1936, Goodyear's was even better. Profits last year were $10,831,000, compared with $5,452,000 in 1935. Old Harvey Samuel Firestone's sound Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. earned $9,142,000 for its fiscal year ending last October, its best year since 1927. No. 4 Rubber company is B. F. Goodrich Co., which last year earned $7,319,000, compared with $3.429,000 the previous year...
...which closed all of Chrysler's automobile plants in the Detroit area, throwing 55,000 employes out of work. Shut, too, by U.A.W. sit-downs were three Hudson plants employing 10,000 men. In Akron last week a walkout by C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers closed Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (10,000 employes). In Manhattan, General Electric's New Dealing President Gerard Swope agreed to a conference with C.I.O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, commencing next week. In Boston, C.I.O. organizers announced formation of a new United Shoe Workers union, with 20,000 charter members. Abandoning...
...obviously unfitted to bring up a nervous child. Leni had to leave. Night before she was to go, the War broke out. The little doctor tried to rush Leni to a train to get her back to Germany; the bicycle on which both were riding got a flat tire; they missed the train and spent an innocent night in the fields. When they got to London they were arrested. Unfortunately for them, that same night Mrs. Newcome had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. It was an open-&-shut case. Before they were both hanged for Mrs. Newcome...