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Rubber. Harvey Samuel Firestone and James Dinsmore Tew (B. F. Goodrich Co.), as representatives of the rubber industry publicly prayed for the bill's defeat by Congress or President Hoover...
...plans have been tried and abandoned. But last week while rubber's deflation carried it to 14? a pound against $1.04 a few years ago, rumors were heard of a new aid to the industry, to be administered from the consumers' instead of producers' end. Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber, Firestone, said reports, would ally themselves as copper companies have done, would attempt to eliminate violent price fluctuations in both raw and finished rubber...
...Geer, onetime vice president in charge of development of B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, retired to realize his early ambition of scientific research...
...Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt by describing the world travels of an Omaha porkpacker who, for all his bluster and gaucherie, was admirable rather than asinine. His virtues were particularly apparent by contrast with those of an epicine playwright whom he encountered on the way. In dramatizing the story, Arthur Goodrich has entirely neglected this central theme, has treated all the characters broadly and achieved a completely banal degree of farce. The performance by Charles Douville Coburn, Ivah Wills Coburn and their supporting cast is, at best, foolish...
...Goodrich-Miller. Suffering from lower crude rubber prices and competition, Miller Rubber Co. of Akron has not done well since 1926. Last week another Akron company, B. F. Goodrich Co. (Silvertown Cords), proposed a merger. Chief Miller products are tires (Miller De Luxe Balloon: "The tire sensation of a decade"), but the company also makes a complete line of rubber goods. Another recent step in Goodrich expansion was the acquisition of Hood Rubber Co. (TIME, Sept...