Word: goodyear
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From Uganda to Indianapolis. The world's biggest rubber-goods manufacturer outside the U.S., London-based Dunlop has 51 plants in Britain and 60 more in 15 countries, including one in Buffalo, N.Y. Though its sales rank behind those of the U.S.'s big four (Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich), Dunlop boasts that it is the most technologically advanced and versatile of the lot. American tires are meant for high-speed driving on well-paved streets, but Dunlop develops different tires for different kinds of roads. Its Hi-Mubroad-tread tires are specially designed to grip wet British...
Died. Anson Conger Goodyear, 86, first (1929-39) president of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a Buffalo industrialist and collector who, in 1929, at the request of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and two other Manhattan patronesses of art, began organizing a museum for contemporary painting and design, signed on Director Alfred H. Barr and a cadre of blue-chip trustees, in ten years established the museum as the world's foremost devoted to modern art; of a heart attack; in Old Westbury...
...produce most of the cheapies themselves, often unknown to the buyers. U.S. Rubber, one of the biggest, makes such tires as Flying A, Atlas and Davis in addition to its prestigious U.S. Royals. Goodrich makes and markets Vanderbilts and Diamonds; Firestone makes Daytons and Cities Service; and Goodyear has just won the contract to make Foremost tires for J. C. Penney, which recently entered the auto-supply field...
...fickle attention of U.S. children and, toymakers hope, to hike this year's toy sales 20% to $1.3 billion. The prospect of all these toys makes visions of dollars dance in the heads of the executives of such companies as U.S. Steel, Dow Chemical, Monsanto, Union Carbide and Goodyear. This year the toy industry will lay out more than $600 million to buy raw materials from their firms and hundreds of others...
...Cheeger; Stanley F. Cohen; Timothy E. Connor; Lawrence J. Corwin; Keith M. Cushman; W. Bowman Cutter III; Robert H. Donaldson; John B. Dunlop; Barry M. Dym; Joseph W. Esherick; Nicholas W. Fels; David S. Forman; Douglas G. Frame; Donald Gertmenian; Raymond E. Glazier, Jr.; Robert L. Goldberg; Harold R. Goodyear; Richard H. Grossman; Gerald O. Grow; Alfred F. Guzzetti; Gordon P. Harper; Wilbur D. Hart III; John J. Hartman; Peter H. Herman; Paul L. Hoch; and Paul S. Hoff...