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CATHEDRAL CLOSE-Susan Goodyear- Scribner...
...anyone who wanted to land a job could do so." Harvard, "being hired 15% ahead of 1936." Columbia, "1937 will join 1936 and 1930 as peak years." Stanford, "50% increase in placements, salaries $105." U. S. Steel took 594 from 91 colleges, American Telephone & Telegraph 300, General Electric 700, Goodyear Tire and Firestone no each...
...reason than to keep a yardstick on costs. Years ago Henry Ford made some of his own tires, discontinuing production when the new River Rouge plant went into operation in 1923. Since then he has bought about half his tires from his good friend Harvey Firestone, the rest from Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber. Henry Ford has made no secret of his alarm over Akron's labor troubles and the possibility of being cut off from his tire source-an alarm which was certainly not stilled by his first encounter with the Sit-Down last week...
...which gets one quarter of its annual needs from its own plantations. Since its acres are in Sumatra (Dutch) and Malaya (British), U. S. Rubber has to submit with good grace to all of the I. R. R. C.'s schemes. No. 1 manufacturer in the industry-Goodyear-gets only 10% of its supply from Goodyear-owned plantations. Firestone's Liberian acres furnish only 5% of the company's requirements and Goodrich owns no plantations...
Worthy as was U. S. Rubber Co.'s progress in 1936, Goodyear's was even better. Profits last year were $10,831,000, compared with $5,452,000 in 1935. Old Harvey Samuel Firestone's sound Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. earned $9,142,000 for its fiscal year ending last October, its best year since 1927. No. 4 Rubber company is B. F. Goodrich Co., which last year earned $7,319,000, compared with $3.429,000 the previous year...