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...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...
From Tent io Palace. In 1921, as a reward for the Hashemites' services, Britain's Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, made Abdullah Emir of Trans-Jordan and made his brother Feisal King of Iraq. The boys had their troubles. Their father, Hussein, Sherif of Mecca, was attacked by his old rival, Ibn Saud. In the end, Ibn Saud drove the Sherif out of his domain, annexed Mecca and the surrounding district to his holdings in Arabia...
Died. Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, polar explorer who used his share of a large family fortune io help finance many of his expeditions; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1926, only two days after Explorer Richard E. Byrd and Aviator Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole, Ellsworth, in the airship Norge, repeated the feat with veteran Explorer Roald Amundsen. In the 1930s he made two trips to Antarctica, claimed 381,000 square miles...
...Strongly Recommend." Since the war, said MacArthur, the U.S.'s strategic frontier has shifted to embrace the whole Pacific. It now runs along an island chain held by the U.S. and its allies from the Aleutians to the Marianas. "Any major breach of that line . . . would render vulnerable io determined attack every other major segment . . . This is a military estimate as to which I have yet to find a military leader who will take exception. For that reason, I have strongly recommended in the past . . . that under no circumstances must Formosa fall under Communist control." Republicans applauded wildly...
...stopped buying U.S. structural steel because Belgian, German and Luxembourg firms were offering him the same goods for $40 less than the $104-a-ton U.S. price. In Chile, the national airlines ordered British De Havilland transports. Salvadorean textile men found they could buy Italian rayon fiber for io/ a Ib. less than the U.S. article. In Lima's streets, women wore British nylons...