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...chemist Dr. Desiree le Beau is working on a new process to reclaim synthetic rubber for reuse. (Methods used to reclaim natural rubber won't work on synthetics, where each type must be differently treated.) But rubber experts are skeptical of most inventions or improvements. Said President L. Collyer of Goodrich last week: "No laboratory or garden miracle that may be performed now can be capitalized in time to lessen in any degree the necessity that faces this nation today of taking every rubber-saving step that...
...night last week B. F. Goodrich Co. gave a party in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Its climax: Goodrich President John Lyon Collyer parted blue plush curtains to reveal a map of the world. On it a line of green neon lights traced the rubber route from Singapore, via Suez and the Mediterranean, to the U. S. and Goodrich's Akron plant. Traveling the rubber route with President Collyer's warning words was a small cardboard boat. In mid-Atlantic, a loud explosion blew...
Radio's Superman is six-foot-two, 184-lb. Clayton Collyer, brother of Cinemactress June Collyer. The episodes are produced in Manhattan by Superman, Inc., recordings expressed to stations using them. Superman has a sound effect about every four lines. For many of his righteous crushers, jumping on various sized berry baskets suffices. For the disintegration of a steel ball bearing in an episode recorded last week, the sound men finally got the oomph they wanted by tossing a dinner plate in the air, busting it with a hammer on the way down...
Named to succeed him was John Lyon Collyer, who at 45 still has years to burn. From Cornell (1917), Mr. Collyer went to work for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., soon switched to the rubber business. By last week, when he was tapped for Goodrich, Mr. Collyer was joint managing director of British Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., had touched most of the rungs of the production ladder...
...were regular attendants of the early meetings in the spring of 1921. They were Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, Richard ("Dick") Blythe, C. B. D. Collyer (deceased), Earl D. Osborn, Donald McIlheny (deceased) and myself...