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...feud was born in the years of bitter, even bloody fighting between the C.I.O. Rubber Workers union and rubber's Big Four of Akron (Goodyear, Goodrich, General and Firestone). Akron was saddled with a six-hour day, which management started during the depression, and which the rubber workers grimly held to thereafter. Not till January of this year did the last group of Akron's tire workers agree to work eight hours, even for war. The whole tire industry's 45.5 hour week is under the national war industry average...
...many Corsairs, and because the Navy considers Brewster, harried by bad management and long strangled in one of the most rigid labor-union contracts in the U.S., the least efficient producer. (The Navy said Corsairs cost $72,000 at Brewster; $63,000 at Chance-Vought, and $57,000 at Goodyear, for identical planes...
...began to gather moderns seriously when they made their first U.S. reconnaissance in force at the 1913 Armory Show. In 1919, with Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, she asked A. Conger Goodyear to head the Museum's original organizing committee. As director they appointed Alfred H. Barr Jr.-who retired last January (his successor has not been appointed). At its opening show (November 1929) the hand counters rang up the first 50,000 of what have since become some 3,400,000 admissions. When "Lillie" Bliss died about a year later she left...
...Rubber. Profitwise, the No. 1 surprise was rubber. After booming 1941, tire makers were hard hit by the shortage in crude. Then followed the intricate, trouble-studded job of turning out a host of new products, with tricky synthetics. But Goodyear's Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield now revealed that volume had soared a resounding 68% during 1943. Profits had tagged along, ending up at $21,479,000 ($8.94 a share) v. 1942's $14,371,000. Percentagewise, U.S. Rubber did even better with...
...able Manhattan advertising executive; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles, Calif. He was president of his own firm (eighth largest in point of billing), which he started in 1935 when he resigned from the presidency of Erwin Wasey & Co., taking six big accounts with him (including General Motors and Goodyear). Sloganeer Kudner conceived "Better Buy Buick," "Eyes to the Future, Ears to the Ground" and "Victory Is Our Business" (G.M.'s prewar and wartime mottoes) and "athlete's foot." On his office wall was a framed quotation of the 1936 world's champion hog caller...