Word: goodrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ernest Henry Schelling, children's musician, suddenly cabled from Celigny, Switzerland, that he would play a wedding march over the trans-Atlantic wireless telephone to Manchester, Mass., when Anne Pullen Dennett, a friend's daughter, was being married. Her parents, prudent, employed John Wallace Goodrich, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, to play Mendelssohn's march right at the wedding, clearly and on time. Later the Schelling performance crackled from a loud speaker...
...were the balance sheets of U. S. automobile tire companies. Sales figures, if not exuberant, were satisfactory. But income figures were disheartening. Net income of the "biggest" Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. dropped from $6,364,005 (Jan.-June, 1927) to $3,074,200 (Jan-June, 1928). For B.F. Goodrich Co., a profit of $5,813,501 turned into a deficit of $1,574,889. Fisk Rubber Co.'s huge deficit...
...which Charles H. Sabin of Manhattan, board chairman of the Guaranty Trust Co., last week, became treasurer. The A.A. P. A. acquired six new directors last week: Financier Henry Morrell Atkinson of Atlanta, Industrialist Lammot du Pont of Wilmington, Clarence H. Geist of Philadelphia (public utilities), Banker David M. Goodrich of Manhattan, Lawyer Gerald Hughes of Denver, Financier Samuel Mather of Cleveland...
...James P. Goodrich, oldtime rough-and-tumble boss from Indiana, until now a colleague of Indiana's small-eyed Watson...
...these Goodyear with assets of $179,000,000 is the largest. Goodrich makes the widest variety of rubber goods. Seiberling is the most redoubtable, starting from below zero only six years ago. Dunlop is unusual because, controlled by the British Tire & Rubber Corp. (Sir Eric Campbell Geddes is chairman) it has become important in the U. S. bicycle and motor car trade. U. S. Rubber has Malayan rubber plantations so extensive that it worries little over foreign control of rubber production. Firestone the past two years has made like enterprise in Liberia...