Word: rubberman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.'s Paul W. Litchfield this week fixed a figurative bayonet and counterattacked the wartime forces that tend to inflate prices and costs. In full page national ads, full-jowled No. 1 U. S. Rubberman Litchfield announced tire price cuts of as much as 12½%, in spite of a wartime increase of nearly 25% in the price of crude rubber (August 29, 16¼? a lb.: Oct. 27, 20½?). After "streamlining" plants and methods, costs were slashed to absorb September's rubber inflation as well as the rubber business' big complaints...
...bought control of U. S. Rubber, plucked Francis Davis from the presidency of a du Pont subsidiary (Viscoloid), told him to salvage what had been the No.1 U. S. rubber company as late as 1925. Whittling the company's debt of $81,000,000 to $53,233,000, Rubberman Davis consolidated operations, modernized tire-making methods, pushed other rubber products, went in for Lastex, a patented, elastic spun yarn which is knitted or woven into such things as sweaters, girdles, slipcovers...
Married. Roger Stanley Firestone, son of Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone; and Mary Seagrave Davis, daughter of U. S. Circuit Court Judge J. Warren Davis; in Lawrenceville...
...Because Rubberman Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, sometime physician, had been dead 18 years, no one at B. F. Goodrich Co. realized that a chunky, broad-shouldered young man who reported for work at the Akron factory one day in 1906 was the founder's nephew. James Dinsmore Tew, just out of Harvard and anxious to prove his worth, did not take the trouble to remind his employers that B. F. Goodrich Co. had once been called Goodrich, Tew & Co. At the end of two years, when young Tew was making $75 a month, he asked for a raise...
...Street Journal told them that "in all probability the economic crisis has passed." They agreed thoroughly when he spoke against high taxes and said, "The cost of government constitutes the gravest obstacle to economic recovery." At dinner the members forgot that they were nonpartisan. Cheers drowned out hisses when Rubberman Firestone urged rhem to "set yourselves to stem the swelling tide . . . and work for the re-election of Mr. Hoover so that the advance of business may continue...