Word: rubberman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motorists last week had better reason than ever to heed Rubberman Dewey's advice: "Conserve the tires you now have...
...difference between success and defeat. Unless every U.S. citizen conserves his tires, unless the Army & Navy cut their needs to the rim, the nation's rubber reserves may be nonexistent by Christmas. Said Rubber Czar William Jeffers: "The country is not yet out of the critical stage." But Rubberman Jeffers, no crier of "Wolf! Wolf!," was optimistic, gaily predicted that U.S. factories would be producing 850,000 tons of synthetic a year within a twelvemonth-more than enough for all military needs...
...money ($1,500,000), Rubberman O'Neil got a going concern which has made a respectable profit for the last 20 years. Founded in 1922 by sharp, balding John Shepard III, the network owns four stations outright (Boston's WNAC, Providence's WEAN, Worcester's WAAB, Bridgeport's WICC), has contracts with 17 others. It is, in turn, affiliated with the Mutual network...
...were the reason offered by Radioman Shepard for selling. His father, John Shepard Jr., retired Boston merchant, owner of Providence's Shepard Stores, onetime (1930-35) mayor of Palm Beach, and the network's chief stockholder, is 86 and someday there will be estate taxes to pay. Rubberman O'Neil gave John Shepard III a five-year contract to continue as network operations head and board chairman...
...Although Rubberman O'Neil seems content to let the Yankee Network alone while his company, now 90% devoted to war goods, works out its war contracts, his post-war radio plans are more active. He sees the network's 6,000,000 Yankee listeners as customers for General Tire in a boom to follow the war. Said he : "New England is a cross section of the best in America. It has everything-big cities, small cities, agricultural areas. . . . And New England people pay their bills-promptly. . . . We do hope to bring to the network some of the spirit...