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...Jersey announced it was ready to make "buty rubber; B. F. Goodrich...
...Goodrich's "Ameripol" is a butadiene rubber, but it is made by cracking petroleum, of which the U. S. has plenty, Germany hardly enough. Cracking yields a gas, which liquefies to give butadiene under pressure. Standard Oil's butyl rubber is also a butadiene from oil-cracking. Last year Chicago's Universal Oil Products...
...night last week B. F. Goodrich Co. gave a party in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Its climax: Goodrich President John Lyon Collyer parted blue plush curtains to reveal a map of the world. On it a line of green neon lights traced the rubber route from Singapore, via Suez and the Mediterranean, to the U. S. and Goodrich's Akron plant. Traveling the rubber route with President Collyer's warning words was a small cardboard boat. In mid-Atlantic, a loud explosion blew...
...Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian or Indian. Not until 1929 (three years after Greenway had died, four years before his widow became a Congresswoman) did Dave Goodrich, chairman of the board...
...onetime captain and quarterback of Michigan's famed 1905 point-a-minute team, husky, greying Frederick Stephenson Norcross Jr., a notable mining engineer, saw the possibilities when Goodrich sent him to Cuba to look for minerals. Prospector Norcross reported manganese was the best bet. Dave Goodrich got Freeport to put up $1,620,000 for development and joined Freeport's board. Norcross did the rest...