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...woods, standing as tall as six feet at the shoulders and weighing up to 1,800 lbs. with antlers six feet across. Yet the moose is about as ferocious as a mouse. Many hunters concede that shooting the lumbering, dimwitted beasts is about as challenging as firing at a Goodyear blimp...
...work gamed international attention recently when he used a translucent helium-filled balloon 100 times the size of the Goodyear blimp" and "as high as the John Hancock Building" in Boston to lower a 150lh. package of measuring devices repeatedly through the stratosphere...
...business in S.A., but 10 of them account for nearly 90 percent of all American investment in S.A.: Mobil. $450 million; IBM $360 million; Caltex, $334 million; Ford. $213 million; Kennecott, $130 million; Phelps-Dodge, $130 million; GM, $129 million; Newmont Mining, $127 million; Union Carbide, $51 million; Goodyear, $20 million...
...Workers union. Over the past two years, 18 tire plants have been closed and 25,000 jobs eliminated. Says Ralph Eifert, Firestone's vice president of employee relations: "We're in difficult times. We know it, and the unions know it too." The four major tire manufacturers (Goodyear, Firestone, B.F. Goodrich and Uniroyal) want to reduce paid holidays and other fringe benefits and cut back on cost of living adjustments...
Rubber workers are not expecting anything like the settlements they have known in the past. Says John Nardella, president of Goodyear Local No. 2 in Akron: "Workers are pessimistic as hell...