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...than to keep a yardstick on costs. Years ago Henry Ford made some of his own tires, discontinuing production when the new River Rouge plant went into operation in 1923. Since then he has bought about half his tires from his good friend Harvey Firestone, the rest from Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber. Henry Ford has made no secret of his alarm over Akron's labor troubles and the possibility of being cut off from his tire source-an alarm which was certainly not stilled by his first encounter with the Sit-Down last week (see p. 20). When...
...rubber consumption was currently running 16% ahead of last year while rubber stocks on hand have dipped below the 200,000-ton mark for the first time since 1930. At the end of last year each of the Big Four U. S. rubber companies (Goodyear, Firestone, U. S., Goodrich) had what seemed to be adequate inventories of rubber at favorable prices. But the future is not altogether reassuring, although possibilities of a shortage are balanced by the possibility that native planters in the Dutch East Indies will suddenly come forward with large rubber supplies...
...submit with good grace to all of the I. R. R. C.'s schemes. No. 1 manufacturer in the industry-Goodyear-gets only 10% of its supply from Goodyear-owned plantations. Firestone's Liberian acres furnish only 5% of the company's requirements and Goodrich owns no plantations...
...better. Profits last year were $10,831,000, compared with $5,452,000 in 1935. Old Harvey Samuel Firestone's sound Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. earned $9,142,000 for its fiscal year ending last October, its best year since 1927. No. 4 Rubber company is B. F. Goodrich Co., which last year earned $7,319,000, compared with $3.429,000 the previous year...
...error of the University News Services the date of the lecture of Charles F. Goodrich, chief engineer of the American Bridge Company, was announced as February 11. The lecture, a sound motion picture on the building of the San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge, will be presented at the New Lecture Hall at 7:30 o'clock on February...