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Goodrich, when the rubber market collapsed in 1937, took a $5,653,000 inventory write-down which put it $878,580 in the red (even after a $593,249 profit on foreign exchange). But last week, Goodrich's President Samuel Brown Robertson reported sales up 27.4%, a $3,122,728 profit, instead of last year's $209,551 loss...
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...slightest slight did TIME intend to put on Mr. Robertson, but TIME does not know the addresses of its newsstand buyers. Though admission to the library is by card only, he or any other newsstand buyer of TIME can obtain a guest card by writing to TIME'S Chicago office (330 East 22d Street). He will find a few exhibits, no dancing girls, no glimpses of the World of Tomorrow-just a cool roomy place high above the city where he can 1) meet his friends, 2) read his hometown newspaper, 3) write his letters, 4) see television...
...carrying a small bundle and on the outside I lad the latest issue (at the time) of your magazine. He told me after we were travel-ng along that anyone who read TIME was friend of his, he was also one of your many admirers. . . R. S. ROBERTSON Toronto, Can. Wily Bonefish Sirs...
...them out with imitation champagne. Only permanent fixtures on the staff were Managing Editor Eric Hawkins (who, being an Englishman with a French wife, was adept at suppressing what the French wouldn't like and correcting the more objectionable misspellings of the native composing room crew); Sportswriter "Sparrow" Robertson (who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar), and Laurence Hills himself (who was a little aghast at it all, except when he added up the profits). The Herald's, legion of homesick readers gladly paid 5? to read its cabled news from New York...