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...m.p.h., and from there into cars which will then speed up to 15 m.p.h. for the two-minute trip to Times Square and slow down again to let them off. Builder of the new shuttle: Akron's Passenger Belt Conveyor, Inc., a newly-formed affiliate of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the world's biggest rubber company...
Rock & Commuters. The conveyor-belt shuttle, which will be ready in three years, is a direct result of the success that Goodyear has had building huge industrial conveyor belts (e.g., a $1,750,000 belt to carry rock ten miles during the building of California's Shasta Dam). Since...
...Goodyear has been working on the idea as a safe, fast method of travel in overcrowded cities. Last spring, with the Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Co. of Aurora, Ill., its partner in the new belt company, Goodyear installed its first project: a $75,000 "speedwalk" to carry New Jersey commuters 227 ft. from the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad's Jersey City terminal up an incline to the Erie Railroad station...
TUBELESS TIRES will be standard equipment on most 1955 autos (including all five Chrysler lines). Goodyear tire production is now 50% tubeless, Firestone 60%, Goodrich 75%, and U.S. Rubber expects to be 50% tubeless by Jan. 1. Chief advantages of tubeless tires: they wear longer, have fewer flats, make steering easier...
...with the union, and in some hardship cases were even getting concessions in their contracts. In Pittsburgh a number of building-trades unions signed new contracts this summer with no raise at all. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers went after a reported 12? raise this year. They settled with Goodyear after a 53-day strike, and with Firestone after 24 days, for 6½?, just a little more than the companies offered in the first place. Workers who went on strike last month at Kennecott Copper for 25? an hour were settling for a nickel...