Word: goodyear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...declared the U.S. Patent Commissioner, Henry L. Ellsworth, in 1844. Men were still goggle-eyed over the recent invention of Morse's telegraph, Howe's sewing machine, Goodyear's vulcanized rubber, McCormick's reaper. Many agreed with Ellsworth that science must be near the end of its rope...
Biggest loser to the pirates was Goodyear Aircraft Corp., makers of fighting planes. When the loss of 60 men hurt production, Goodyear complained. WMC cracked down hard, ordered all hijacked workers back to .their former jobs. Two shops got around the order by taking the hijacked men into partnership...
...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...
...Bite. In the face of this situation Akron does not chew as much war work as it has bitten off. As tire-making slacked when rubber got scarce, the Big Four grabbed orders for rubber rafts, gas tanks, ammunition, etc. Goodyear even set up its own aircraft unit, now employs 24,000 turning out Corsair fighters and plane parts. This was good business as long as the synthetic rubber program floundered. But now synthetic is pouring in, and Akron is trying to turn out more heavy tires than ever before...