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During World War II, Akron's Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. got plenty of experience operating Government-owned plants. Among them: three synthetic rubber plants, two of which it still runs, and a big aircraft factory which turned out 4,000 Navy Corsair fighters. Last week Goodyear got its biggest Government job: running the Atomic Energy Commission's $1.2 billion uranium-235 plant in Pike County, Ohio (TIME, Aug. 25). Though Goodyear had no experience with atomic energy, AEC figured that it did know a lot about the continuous-flow operations used in atomic energy plants, could learn...
...approve or disapprove of bargaining agreements already reached. And most unions, having used up most of their allowable wage increases, are after more than is permissible. The rubber workers, for example, are entitled to only about 5? an hour in cost-of-living increases. This week they settled with Goodyear for 10?, and the case will soon come before the board. John L. Lewis, for another, will hardly settle for the 10? his coal miners are entitled...
Clifford I. Huff--Vice-president, managing director, manufacturing and sales Goodyear products in Uruguay and Argentina. Has been in South America for the last 25 years. Lives in Buenos Aires...
...Goodyear Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Russell Hardie in The 23rd Mission...
...Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is somewhat famous for the basketball players on its staff. Until a few years ago even President Edward J. Thomas played on the Company team, and A.M.P. Marvin Huffman is no exception. Once a member of the Indians NCAA championship outfit, he joined Goodyear in 1940 and is now Assistant to the Vice president...