Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three large Ford ships arrived at the mouth of the Tapajoy River in northern Brazil, last week, bearing engineers, physicians, mechanics, and material to develop Motor Man Henry Ford's rubber concessions at Para. The material was admitted without duty...
Down, down, down go earnings of U. S. automobile tire makers (TIME, Aug. 27). And down, down, down go the prices of tires. To leading companies, U. S. Rubber and the "biggest" Goodyear Tire & Rubber, last week announced a 20% slash in the cost of second grade tires, meeting a similar reduction by Firestone Tire...
...Rubber Cq. Tire makers, linked in the Rubber Pool, have seen their inventories of crude rubber, bought at around 40? a pound, fall to less than 20?. The same tiremakers, linked in the new Rubber Institute, are fighting fierce competition from mileage-guaranteeing mail order houses (see LETTERS...
...Angeles, pride of the Navy, only rigid airship† in the U. S., is going to have two sisters. Last week, a judging board of the Navy announced that the designs submitted by Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron, Ohio, a subsidiary of potent Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., are better than those of a half dozen competitors.* It seemed almost certain that Goodyear would be awarded the contracts for the two airships, that work would begin this autumn and the first new giant silver cigar would take the air in 1930. Goodyear quoted $7,950,000 as the price...
...president of the Toyo Muslin Co. (10,000 employes), of Bagnall & Hilles Co. Ltd. (distributor of General Electric Products in Japan), of the Tokyo Commercial Bank, of the Mitsubiki Company (importers of sugar, rubber, iron, steel), of a dozen lesser concerns...