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...Goodyear Tire & Rubber made $5,452,000 in 1935 against $4,287,000 in 1934. Sales were $28,000,000 ahead of 1934, but the tire companies spent the best part of the 1935 selling season in one of their chronic price-cutting battles. U. S. motorists bought about 2,500,000 fewer tires in 1935 than in 1934, partly because they were catching on to the possibilities of having tires retreaded. Goodyear, having made 12? a share in 1935, was last week selling at $28, about 233 times earnings...
...artists were producing. As with the Luxembourg, masterpieces, bought cheap, might later be passed on to the historic museums, like the Louvre or the Metropolitan, when time had verified them. Besides Mrs. Rockefeller, founders of the Museum of Modern Art included Miss Bliss, Mrs. W. Murray Crane, A. Conger Goodyear, Editor Frank Crowninshield, Paul J. Sachs of Harvard's Fogg Museum. Gallery space was rented in the Heckscher Building, and on the advice of Professor Sachs, lean, 27-year-old Alfred H. Barr Jr. was hired as Director...
Among U. S. collectors contributing to the Modern Museum's exhibition are the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Museum, Adolph Lewisohn, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. William Averell Harriman, Conductor Josef Stransky, A. Conger Goodyear and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Winterbotham of Burlington...
...Detroit daily, his eyes failed him, and he sadly set up a shipping office in Duluth. Today he owns the Tomlinson fleet of 15 Great Lakes steamers, two farms where he raises horses, 9,000 volumes of Americana, is board chairman of American Shipbuilding, a director of Goodyear Tire & Rubber and vice president of the Cleveland Baseball Club (Indians). He also sits on the boards of 16 Van Sweringen railroads, though he was President Wilson's Wartime Director of Inland Waterways...
Cleveland attacked the problem by land and air. In the air a Goodyear blimp lazily circled over St. Louis day & night urging from banners and neon-lit signs: COME TO CLEVELAND IN 1936. Below, lighter spirits dragged a bed all over town invited ladies to try the mattress. Across it were the legends: CLEVELAND FOR A PERFECT '36-CURB SERVICE...