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Little (5 ft. 3 in.) Frank A. Seiberling liked to be called the "Little Napoleon of Rubber." In 52 years in the business, F.A.'s career had as many patches and punctures as an old inner tube. He founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 1898 with $3,500 borrowed cash, made it the world's biggest tiremaker. But in the 1921 slump he lost control of his company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Long Stretch | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...business a stake in the school. With more than enough on tap to meet its 60% operating deficit, Tecnológico last week got a rousing boost from outside. In Mexico City, 600 miles to the south, executives in the U.S. industrial colony (including branches of General Electric, Westinghouse, Goodyear) opened a drive for $58,000 to boost the school's endowment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: M. I. T. | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

What Is Truth? Edith Efron is the Manhattan-born wife of Fortuné Bogat, a Haitian business agent for U.S. manufacturers (General Motors, RCA, Goodyear, Du Pont). Stepmother of three children, mother of a fourth and mistress of a mountainside mansion overlooking Port-au-Prince, she had a self-deprecating reply to President Estimé's invitation: she had "never taught anybody anything." But, she said, she was willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uproar in Haiti | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...when Fitzgerald walked, went to second on a wild pitch and scored on a sharp ground single just inside third by Paul Lambert. The Elis tallied again in the sixth. Art Dowd was safe on a fielder's choice, stole second, and scored on a single to center by Goodyear...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Yale Thwarts Crimson's League Title Bid With 3-0 Victory | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...Goodyear held Harvard to singles in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth innings while the Crimson touched him for two singles in the ninth. The visitors loaded the bases in the fifth and had two man on in the seventh only to have popups end the rally. There was no Chip Gannon to whack a homer this year and Godin, though adequate, was not sparkling. He struck out five to make the new EIBL strikeout record...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Yale Thwarts Crimson's League Title Bid With 3-0 Victory | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

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