Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rubber: bullet resistance equal to that of all-steel armor plate weighing 20% more...
...Rubber kept details of its invention under wraps...
Across a trial table in Cleveland's Common Pleas Court last week two aging tycoons, once inseparable friends, faced each other in bitter litigation. Plaintiff was tiny (5 ft. 3) Frank A. Seiberling, board chairman of Seiberling Rubber Co.. keen and dapper despite his 80 years. On the other side was mystic, eccentric, 275-lb. Edgar B. Davis, 66, oil & rubber man, who has made and spent four fortunes, given away some $6,000,000 to charity and friends because he believed his money "came from the good God himself...
When the pair first met in 1912. Frank Seiberling was the head of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which he had founded; Edgar Davis was managing director of U. S. Rubber Co.'s vast Sumatra plantation. They found they had a common dream: enough U. S.-owned plantations to smash the Dutch-British rubber monopoly. Before they could do much about it, Rubberman Davis left U. S. Rubber Co. with a $2,000,000 fortune, which he proceeded to give away and to pour down a series of dry holes in the oil country around Luling...
Having endorsed Goodyear's notes in the 1920 panic, Seiberling, with personal debts of $6,665,000, was ousted from control of his company by Dillon, Read & Co. He quickly formed a new firm, Seiberling Rubber Co., and a holding company, Prudential Securities, Inc., into which he put all of his personal assets - including 128,000 shares of Goodyear common stock...