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Similar trouble encountered before when bigger planes went into service has always been successfully overcome. Last week Douglas Aircraft Co. was busy perfecting a reinforcement for the wing where the de-icer is attached, and B. F. Goodrich Co.. maker of the deicers, was busy hunting for a way to strengthen the rubber. Both promised results by next ice weather...
...Believe me when I tell you that an executive of a big corporation burns up about two years of his life every twelve months," said black-browed President James Dinsmore Tew of B. F. Goodrich Co. Mr. Tew was speaking in Akron at a meeting of the Twenty Year Service Club of Goodrich employes. Because Mr. Tew has long been known as one of the hardest-working executives in Akron, he was readily believed, readily understood when he announced that he was retiring as active head of the great rubber company...
...went to work for Goodrich in 1906 without taking the trouble to remind his employers that he was a nephew of the founder and that B. F. Goodrich Co. had once been known as Goodrich, Tew & Co. His first job was to clean and roll liners at 15? an hour, ten and a half hours a day. When his boss told him two years later that $75 a month was his limit, young Tew walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. and got a better job. The first successful cord tire made in the U. S., Silvertown, was produced by Diamond...
Elected Tew's successor at Goodrich's annual meeting in Manhattan last week was Samuel Brown Robertson, 59, who went to Goodrich in 1919 after 20 years as a supervising engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad. As director of engineering for the rubber company, big, husky Sam Robertson built the $4,000,000 Goodrich plant at Los Angeles, which is considered a model in the industry...
...nothing Saturday at New Haven. Fourteen soccer players journeyed to Yale to play the informal out of season game. Several Freshmen were included on the pick up team. A week ago at Soldiers Field the Elis also beat the Crimson booters, this time three to two. Manager Donald C. Goodrich, who accompanied Saturday's team, announced that this ends the spring soccer practice season...