Word: collyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the shower of good first-quarter earnings reports (see below), other companies voiced their confidence in the increasing appetite of the growing U.S. population. B. F. Goodrich Chairman John L. Collyer announced a $200 million plant expansion in the next five years, nearly $60 million more than in the last five. Youngstown Sheet & Tube, already committed to a $40 million outlay in two years, is pressing so hard to keep up with rising steel demand that it is considering tacking another $20 million onto the total...
CRUDE-RUBBER STOCKPILING should be ended, say rubber manufacturers. B.F. Goodrich Chairman John L. Collyer says that the Government stockpile now has 1,200,000 long tons worth an estimated $825 million−enough to last six to eight years in an emergency...
...KEEPER, by Marcia Davenport (457 pp.; Scribner; $3.95) proves mostly that a writer with nothing much to say need never despair: the tabloids are full of stories. This one is about two old bachelor brothers who were found dead in a house full of junk (just like the famous Collyer brothers, who in 1947 were found dead in a junk-filled house in uptown Manhattan). Why, asks Author Davenport, did devoted brothers of good family and good education die in squalor and madness when they had scads of money in the bank? The answer: Momism. Old Grandma Holt dominated...
...never seems to slow down, Richardson emigrated from England to the U.S. when he was twelve. He joined the Goodrich organization in 1926, moved up to become general sales manager and then president of the B. F. Goodrich Chemical Co. in Cleveland. As president, he succeeds John L. Collyer, a pioneer in synthetic rubber and spokesman for the industry on the War Production Board. Collyer will remain as chairman of the board and chief executive officer...
Margaret Sullavan, though uneven, brings far more integrity to the playing of Hester Collyer than Rattigan does to the part. The expert Alan Webb is floored as the husband; as the playboy, James Hanley comes off much better in the play's best role. As somebody who would love and cherish Hester if he could, he perhaps reflects something in Rattigan himself. Rattigan seems not so much unwilling to do right by his material as incapable...