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...select fraternity of corporations with gross sales of more than $1 billion, some new members were admitted last week. Latest additions, on the basis of 1951 tabs: International Harvester, Shell Oil, Goodyear Tire & Rubber (first rubber company to make the grade), Standard Oil of California, National Dairy, Republic Steel. Total membership...
...industry's billion-dollar sales league (TIME, May 7) has included no rubber company. Last week Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. qualified on the basis of its first-half sales of $544,642,341, the biggest in its history. Goodyear also chalked up an alltime record net of $20,685,820 after taxes, a gain of 73% over IO'S first half...
Miscellaneous Orders (e.g., transmissions, tank track, trailers, etc.): Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; G.M.'s Allison Division, $26 million; Timken-Detroit Axle Co., $29 million; Fruehauf Trailer Co., $34 million; G.M.'s Chevrolet, $6 million; American Steel Foundries, $15.8 million; Continental Motors Corp., $95 million...
...Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. raised prices 7½ to 10% ($1.40 on popular-sized tires), the fifth increase this year. Other tire companies were expected to follow...
...Ford Motor Co., which made airplane engines in World War II, took on the job of making Pratt & Whitney Wasp Majors for B-36s in Chicago's vast onetime Tucker plant. To boost GR-S synthetic rubber production up to a maximum of 760,000 tons a year, Goodyear and Goodrich rubber companies were asked by RFC to reopen the last two idle rubber plants. And where quick action has been needed, U.S. industry has jumped to the job. Example: to fill the U.S. Army's need for 3-5-in. superbazookas to stop the Korean Reds...