Word: goodyear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Charles W. Seiberling, 85, longtime rubber tycoon, who, with his brother Frank, founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., lost control of it in the '20s, bounced back with the Seiberling Rubber Co.; in Akron...
...Washington street last week, came to a stop beside a filling station at the corner of Connecticut and N Streets. Swiftly the boxlike affair was unloaded. In exactly 3½ hours, nine men had turned it into a two-bedroom house, ready for occupancy. In this eye-opening way, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. put on exhibition its prefabricated house, built by its subsidiary, Wingfoot Homes...
...Goodyear has been operating a pilot assembly plant in Litchfield Park, Ariz, for a year, believes that 48,900 houses a year can be mass-produced at a cost of under $2,500 apiece, plus delivery charges. Like some 'other prefabricators, notably Bucky Fuller, Goodyear Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield thinks that surplus war plants could be used to turn out his houses. But Wingfoot has made few houses to date, for the same reason that has delayed all building: lack of materials...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s chairman, Paul Weeks Litchfield. predicted that 350,000 tons of crude rubber would be available within a year, 900.000 tons in two years. Rubber processing machinery is on the way to Goodyear's Pathfinder Plantation on Mindanao where a trickle of rubber was produced during the Jap occupation (TIME...
...reconversion outlook for some representative U.S. companies: GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. Output of tires and plastics for civilians can begin immediately. Estimated postwar employment: 30% greater than the prewar peak of 28,561, but only 30% of their 1942 wartime employment peak...