Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directors picked Daniel M. Goodrich, son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, founder of the corporation. A new vice president is James D. Tew, son of Dr. Goodrich's early associate when B. F. Goodrich Co. was called Goodrich & Tew. The company makes a greater variety of products from rubber than does any other concern...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Miller Rubber...
Months of preparation had preceded their disappearance. Publisher Hearst had taken every known precaution for Old Glory: A complete radio set, rubber raft, flares, much food for the flyers, even little metal mouthpieces which distill a cup of water from the breath every 24 hours. The destination of the plane was Rome, 4,100 miles away (115 miles beyond Clarence Chamberlin's endurance record into Germany.) The Pope in his Vatican nodded, pleased, when the wires told how Father Mullen, Old Orchard priest, had blessed the plane and tits mission just before the takeoff...
...foggy night, rainy, winds were high. Though the ships reached the vicinity within a few hours after the cry for help, the nervous fingers of their groping searchlights could not touch the spot where three men may have floated in a soggy plane, or on a little rubber raft...
...ambition, a craving for power?" Mr. Flint repeated: "No! It is pure, green greed. . . . Greed, and greed alone, is the reason for a man's wanting to swell his wad million after million!" Mr. Flint, who as the "Father of Trusts"- made his money in shipping, electric lighting, rubber, chewing gum, munitions, etc., was asked the secret of moneymaking. Said he: "Well, God has favored some men highly and has given them gifts which they use to make money." He cited the case of a man employed by him whose salary had jumped from...