Word: goodrich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nylon Tires. Three tire companies-Firestone, Goodrich and U.S. Rubber-announced their first nylon cord tires (Goodyear has had one since April). Firestone's is the first tubeless nylon tire, while Goodrich brought out a nylon truck tire, with a tread 46% thicker than usual, which it says will last up to 100,000 miles. U.S. Rubber claims its nylon passenger tire has 95% more bruise resistance than standard tires. Prices run 6% to 15% higher than regular tire lines...
...decided to buy U.S. Rubber tires, Wilson said, only after Goodyear had turned the offer down and Goodrich prices proved too high. Had Wilson ever discussed with G.M. President Alfred Sloan the appointment of Du Pont people to G.M.'s board? Wilson had not, but he had discussed the fact that several board members were also G.M. suppliers, "and I always said that ordinarily that was not a good thing to do ... If you put the president of one of the steel companies on your board, your other good suppliers might worry that he had an inside track...
Among Harvard's top stocks are Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric, General Motors, B.F. Goodrich, Texas Company, Union Carbide, and, appropriately enough, Hiram Walker...
Author Eyster ends his book well before V-J day, sends the Dreher to the bottom with nearly all hands, as the U.S. fights its way back to the Philippines. As a tale of a destroyer. Far from the Customary Skies is miles behind Marcus Goodrich's small masterpiece Delilah. As a quasipoetic documentary of arms and the sea, it pins a few surplus decorations on nature's biggest masterpiece, the Pacific Ocean...
What the plants, which cost $525 million, are now worth will have to be determined by a huge poker game, which has, in fact, already begun between the Government and the prospective buyers. One precedent: the $10.9 million copolymer plant in Louisville went for $4,187,000 to Goodrich in 1947. The industry, which naturally wants to get the plants as cheaply as possible, points out that the plants have had ten years of depreciation, that the RFC itself carries them at book value of only $172.6 million. Furthermore, for three months the industry has been breaking into a rash...