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Today the ordinary country filling station may sell $300 or $400 of tires in a year, but at least one tire company-Firestone-foresees that in the future many if not most tires will be sold by chain tire stores, each part of a master service station in whose several departments specialized brake service, washing and greasing, battery service, will be combined with a filling station and a store for selling electrical equipment...
Thomas Alva Edison said last week: ''Without great improvements people will tire of talkies. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in the silent pictures...
While the "49ers" were going around his plant, Inventor Edison chewed a cigar and consented to answer a questionnaire that newsmen had presented to him. To the question, "What do you think of the future of the talkies?" his answer was emphatic: "Without great improvements people will tire of them. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in silent pictures." Then, to another query, he gave ambition, imagination, and the will to work as the key to success...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (World's largest in rubber. Daily output of 95,000 tires and tubes, 400,000 pairs of rubber heels. Reorganization of 1921 followed by much litigation, further reorganization in 1927, present management potent and prosperous.) Net profit, first half...
Harvey Samuel Firestone, Tire tycoon, figured in two days' headlines as follows: (first day) HARVEY S. FIRESTONE ILL WITH PNEUMONIA; (second day) FIRESTONE BETTER . . . PNEUMONIA AVERTED...