Word: collyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homer Collyer and his brother Langley grew up just before the gas chandelier, the camisole and the Prince Albert coat vanished from the American scene. Their father was a well-known and wealthy Manhattan gynecologist, their mother an educated woman who read the classics aloud to them in Greek. They were fondly reared; they were trained to be gentlemen & scholars. Homer became an admiralty lawyer. Langley went in for engineering and developed a talent for the piano...
Every afternoon, millions of U.S. youngsters tune in a radio program that begins: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. . . . It's Superman!" Last week, radio row was still chuckling over Clayton ("Bud") Collyer's dilemma. Like many another commuter, the 37-year-old radio actor who plays Superman had been stuck in Manhattan by the rail strike...
...Promise Me. Motorists with A-cards can expect to get new tires next February or March. So John L. Collyer predicted last week, as he resigned as WPB's rubber boss to resume the presidency of B. F. Goodrich Co. Like all rubber promises, this one was elastic: the U.S. will be dangerously short of natural rubber by year's end, will have only 66,000 tons on hand. Before A-card civilians get their tires, the U.S. will have to find 75,000 more tons of natural rubber than are now in sight...
John Lyon Collyer, president of B. F. Goodrich Co., celebrated the third anniversary of his first synthetic-tire sale with a significant look at the future for all kinds of rubber. He forecast a world rubber demand of at least 2,000,000 tons a year-almost twice the world's peak prewar consumption...
...prove his forecast's reasonableness Mr. Collyer pointed out that before the war China's annual per capita rubber consumption was only .03 lb., Russia's only .3 lb. v. a 10-lb. average for U.S. citizens. With even a slight increase in foreign consumption, synthetic rubber and natural rubber could live together in peace & quiet...