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...Matter of Pride Los Angeles' rubber-tire industry had come to life again. Absenteeism, which had made the Firestone, Goodyear, U.S. Rubber and Goodrich tire plants production disappointments, was reported cut in one month from 12% to 3%. Production was up 50%. The apparent reasons: ¶ Tire workers had gone to work on a seven-day instead of a six-day-week (as part of a War Department-sponsored, four-month drive which began Jan. 1). ¶ The Germans' December breakthrough had revitalized complacent workers. ¶ The emergency furlough of 600 soldiers to fill in gaps...
...Goodrich, the civilians promised not to shave until the drive was over, shaved absentee civilians on their return to work and cut their trousers off at the knee-signifying an ignominious return to boy status. Workers at the U.S. Rubber plant chipped in to form a $10,000 pool, to be divided among workers in departments with the highest "presenteeism" rate...
...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...