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...about Detroit: a city with a metropolitan population twice that of Boston, its three main "sights", after the auto plants, are all corporate monuments built next to highways: one is "the largest tire in the world", on the road in from the airport, a multi-story whitewall job by Goodrich; another is a huge electronic billboard sponsored by Goodyear, greeting GM executives returning to Bloomfield Hills, which reveals--not the time, not the Dow-Jones Industrial Average, but the minute-by-minute total number of cars and trucks produced since the beginning of the year; finally, there is my favorite...
...years of his life he exhibited nothing that he did not choose to exhibit and showed his few visitors nothing he did not wish them to see. Thirty years ago, well before New York's Whitney Museum mounted its first Hopper retrospective, the show's director, Lloyd Goodrich (who is also Hopper's biographer), was shown meticulously kept logbooks that seemed to record all Hopper's important works, including data on when and where painted or exhibited, when and to whom sold...
...other major tiremakers-Firestone, Uniroyal, B.F. Goodrich and General Tire-made quick and expensive production changeovers to get in on the belted bonanza. Most of them have now regained lost ground in the market, which includes $3.8 billion a year in replacement purchases and the $700 million spent on equipping new cars. Recently several major tiremakers stepped up the competitive pace by putting out still another variety of tire, the "radial...
...them imports, cost an average of about $54.50 each v. an average $49.50 for the bias-belted tires. More important, because the suspension system of most Detroit cars is built for bias-ply or belted tires, the stiffer radials give a somewhat harder ride, especially at low speeds. B.F. Goodrich, which in 1965 became the first U.S. company to market radials, reports that they now account for 10% of the company's production...
...world's largest petrochemical plants, a $240 million venture involving the government and Allied Chemical Corp. as equal partners, went into operation last week. A $33 million caustic-soda plant was opened at Abadan last year; 74% of it is controlled by the government and 26% by B.F. Goodrich Co. At Kharg Island, a $45 million sulfur plant, built by Iran and a subsidiary of Indiana Standard Oil Co., recently began operations. Reynolds Metals Co. is putting up a $45 million aluminum plant at Arak in western Iran. In Teheran, Caterpillar Tractor Co. this week will open...