Word: goodrich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feud was born in the years of bitter, even bloody fighting between the C.I.O. Rubber Workers union and rubber's Big Four of Akron (Goodyear, Goodrich, General and Firestone). Akron was saddled with a six-hour day, which management started during the depression, and which the rubber workers grimly held to thereafter. Not till January of this year did the last group of Akron's tire workers agree to work eight hours, even for war. The whole tire industry's 45.5 hour week is under the national war industry average...
...Wednesday morning, 8 December, the following 11 civilian employees of the Chaplain School were awarded the Army Service Forces Ribbon for faithful and meritorious service by Chaplain William D. Cleary, Commandant: Lydis S. Belless E Louise Beng, Edith V. Bradley, Mary Geraldine Cox, Charles Demetropolis, Marie Flarrel, Marjovie L. Goodrich, Adele N. Haggman, Evalyn Leots Hargen, Mary T. Renneberry, N. Jane Hell, Clare E. McGowan, Leonora A. Maroney, Ruth Mafas, Estherine B. Murray, Georgs T. Myles, Adele Paniser, Shirley Ann Shields, Mary Stepico, Sylvia Sugarman, Maribe Wilson, Evangeline M. Zollars...
Most effective and widely used device now is a deicer: B. F. Goodrich's "rubber-boot"-a rubber strip fastened in place along the leading edges of the wings. When the pilot shoots compressed air into the boot, it expands and contracts, the ice cracks off. But the addition of the rubber strip increases the wind drag on the plane, i.e., decreases its lift; the strip has to be taken off during the summer months to make it last even as long as two winters; repair jobs are frequently necessary on spots subject to severe strain. A ground check...
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...
...program will include a selection of Masonic music and two canons by Mozart, single compositions by Webbe, Milhaud, Sullivan, and Irving G. Fine '37, and two solos, by Marjorie Rice, Radcliffe '43 and D. Wells Goodrich...