Word: rubbermen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber industry rises and falls with automobile sales and the price of crude rubber. Two years ago most of the companies were sagging under heavy inventories; currently, the tire inventory position is the lowest in four years and revival of the automobile industry gives rubbermen reason to anticipate an excellent year. But though tire and tube sales are the industry's mainstay, providing 65% of total volume, the most significant fact about rubber today is its technological progress. At the threshold of its second 100 years, the industry is bubbling over with new ideas, new products...
...rubbermen created the International Rubber Regulation Committee- a cartel that represents 98% of the world's rubber producers. The I. R. R. C.'s aims are two:1) to establish and maintain a base limit to rubber planting, 2) to fix quarterly quotas on the amount of this rubber that is marketable...
Although U. S. rubbermen use one-half the world's rubber, they have nothing to say about production, which is largely in the hands of the British, the Dutch and the French. Sitting in at Brettenham House...
...Brettenham House, he speaks only when spoken to. last week, entitled to speak only when spoken to, was President Albert L. Viles of the Rubber Manufacturers Association, which is the nearest thing to a trade "institute" individualistic U. S. rubbermen will tolerate. Had he been asked, Mr. Viles would have told the committee that U. S. rubber consumption was currently running 16% ahead of last year while rubber stocks on hand have dipped below the 200,000-ton mark for the first time since 1930. At the end of last year each of the Big Four U. S. rubber companies...
George Taylor Bishop, 67, president of Continental Shares, Inc., gave a luncheon party in Manhattan last week for rubbermen and bankers. Cyrus Stephen Eaton, founder of Continental Shares, was not among the 32 guests but had he been he would have approved of everything that was done...