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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Subway of the Future | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Subway of the Future | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Subway of the Future | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The New Era: Fewer Strikes | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

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