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From Block to Chip. Although it is the youngest of rubber's Big Four (after Goodyear, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich), Firestone is the world's second biggest rubber company, just a shade behind Goodyear, with 1955 sales of $1.1 billion and a peak profit of $55.4 million. Firestone's start in 1900 was as hard as the jolting, solid-rubber tires of that day. It had to buck furious price competition and inflexible patent monopolies, waited three years before turning its first profit. Then it moved fast. Founder Harvey S. Firestone Sr. developed one of the first pneumatic...
Female Venom. The men offered a grim antidote to sweetness in The Sentry, a Civil War episode seen on NBC's Goodyear Playhouse. John Gay's original drama told of an attempt by three Confederates to destroy a railway bridge behind the Union lines, and the beat-up veterans were given a grimy reality by George Grizzard. Frank Overton and Si Oakland. But Author Gay had more success in writing his strongly individual characters than in handling the quirks and coincidences of his plot...
...Goodyear Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Career Girl by Jerome Ross...
Embarrassing Riches. Joey on the Goodyear TV Playhouse was more in the classic TV tradition: a small story about an insecure boy, sensitively seen by Author Louis Peterson, and performed with wit and understanding by talented Kim Stanley and Newcomer Anthony Perkins, whose Lincolnesque good looks are certain to bring him offers from Hollywood...
...booming rubber industry, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Chairman P. W. Litchfield announced the biggest expansion program in his company's history: $114 million to increase production both at home and abroad. In the U.S. new plants and machines will boost production of tires, foam rubber, aircraft products, flooring and chemicals, while overseas new Goodyear tire plants will spring up in Scotland, Colombia, Venezuela and the Philippines. Said Litchfield, noting Goodyear's record 1955 sales of $1.3 billion and $59 million profit: "Our plants, both in this country and abroad, have all been operating at full capacity during the past...