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Despite the task force approach, research is not a monopoly of the big companies. Many small companies that cannot afford full-scale research programs of their own can hire top outside brains to solve their scientific problems. Companies such as B. F. Goodrich and General Dynamics specialize in product development to fit other companies' requirements. Even corporations with their own big laboratories often hand over research projects to scientific contractors such as Boston's famed Arthur D. Little Inc. (1955 gross: $11 million), whose 800-man research staff has developed products ranging from rubber cement to a better...
...Ward Keener and Arthur Kelly were named executive vice presidents of B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron. The positions were established to groom them as successors to Goodrich Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John L. Collyer, and President William S. Richardson, who must retire in 1958 at 65. Alabama-born Ward Keener, 48, made such a reputation as a business administration professor at Ohio Wesleyan University that Goodrich hired him as special analyst in 1937, gradually moved him up to vice president in charge of finance. Kelly went to the company straight from Purdue, has been with Goodrich...
From Block to Chip. Although it is the youngest of rubber's Big Four (after Goodyear, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich), Firestone is the world's second biggest rubber company, just a shade behind Goodyear, with 1955 sales of $1.1 billion and a peak profit of $55.4 million. Firestone's start in 1900 was as hard as the jolting, solid-rubber tires of that day. It had to buck furious price competition and inflexible patent monopolies, waited three years before turning its first profit. Then it moved fast. Founder Harvey S. Firestone Sr. developed one of the first pneumatic...
...TIRE PRICE INCREASE will be made in the near future, says B. F. Goodrich President W. S. Richardson. Synthetic-rubber prices have climbed about 4% to 23.9? a Ib. recently, but lower prices for crude rubber and nylon will keep tire prices about the same...
...Having studied the various aid-to-education plans of its sister corporations, B. F. Goodrich Co. concocted a recipe of its own. Each year it will spend some $300,000 to pay for 1) seven four-year scholarships for bright high-school graduates selected by the National Merit Scholarship Foundation, 2) 50% of the tuition and laboratory fees of any employee taking a course related to his job, and 3) matching gifts of up to $500 that employees may make to any school. Any campus (public or private) with a Goodrich scholar will get a gift equal to the student...