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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Not So Super | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR ECONOMY: Facts & Figures, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: Room for Rubber | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: Room for Rubber | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

Handsome, well-built Clayton ("Bud") Collyer, 34, who plays WOR's Superman, stands six feet high, weighs 165 pounds. Though he lacks the original's bulging muscles and jutting jaw, Supermaniacs who have met him in the flesh were not too rudely disillusioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Superman in the Flesh | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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