Word: tire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith College last month sold almost $700,000 worth of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company stock because the company did not satisfactorily explain the rationale for construction of a new plant in South Africa...
...more than 750 officers from Texas, Florida and Kansas, consists of six hours of class instruction (usually in a converted saloon near Dallas) and 18 hours of driving on a course with turns known as Serpentine, Lollypop and T-Bone Alley. Turner emphasizes calm, smooth movements and no tire-squealing maneuvers. "Think slow," he tells students. "Make a corner better, and you can catch the guy even if he's going 20 miles an hour faster than...
DIED. José Ber Gelbard, 60, wealthy Argentine aluminum and tire manufacturer who served as Economy Minister (May 1973 to October 1974) under President Juan Perón and his widow Isabel; of a heart attack; in Washington, B.C. To slow Argentina's 80%-a-year inflation, Gelbard decreed stringent wage and price controls. But his policies contributed to the country's near economic collapse, precipitating the 1976 coup that overthrew Isabel. Said Gelbard of Argentine business: "There are no rules. Those who are in power make up the rules. So those out of favor are bound...
...workers, not just take care of them after they become sick. He put some of his ideas into practice as medical director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from 1946 until 1955. Said he: "It is not uncommon to find an executive who worries more about tire replacement on his fleet of trucks than the health of his employees...
...Arthur Kuechenmeister retired 13 months ago from his $25,000-a-year job as a tire technologist for Uniroyal, with a sense of serious foreboding. "The worst part of it is the feeling that you're washed up, you're through," he says. "You feel that your life is over with, you're no longer a part of the team, the group. They don't want you any more...