Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National Power & Light. 6,782** 8,829** United Light & Power . 1,722** 5,112** General Tire & Rubber...
...coincidence that the leading member of the family spent most of last week in Akron's Domestic Relations Court. The Federal Trade Commission was using the courtroom for hearings not on domestic relations but on unholy relations which, the Commission charged, have long existed between Goodyear Tire & Rubber and the world's biggest mail order house. Sears, Roebuck (TIME, Oct. 30). Invoking the Clayton anti-trust laws and the ancient demons of discrimination, monopoly and secret rebates, the Commission attacked the contracts by which Goodyear makes cheap tires for Sears to sell under Sears' brand names. Last...
...contracts were on a cost-plus basis. The present ten-year non-cancellable contract signed in 1931 calls for at least 1,800 tires per day and a profit of 6% or 6½%, depending on the price of crude rubber...
...others of the Big Four tiremakers -Goodrich and U. S. Rubber-also manufacture special brands. But Firestone and most of the small companies regard the cheap tire as the chief source of the industry's woes. And last week many a tire man was sure that it was that embattled elder of the tire family, Harvey Samuel Firestone, who had egged the Government into Akron's Domestic Relations Court...
...Gannett papers supported Herbert Hoover in 1932 and are still dry enough to refuse all liquor advertising, but since the first indications of a managed currency Publisher Gannett has been an ardent New Dealer. Secretary Morgenthau is one of his friends. So is Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren of Cornell, whose views the Agriculturist has long reflected. Publisher Gannett saw a chance not only to oblige his friend and neighbor, but also to turn a pretty profit if the New Deal works out as he hopes...