Word: tiremen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prodded by irate U. S. tiremen, the State Department last week complained about the price of rubber to the British Government-a logical move since the British International Rubber Regulation Committee is quasi-official. Thanks to the committee's restrictive policy, rubber was above 27? per lb., a tenfold increase over its Depression low (TIME, March...
...were good for 15 years ago, but more cars and more mileage per car per year have complemented technological improvements. Current competition is relatively peaceful after years of cut-throat warring among the Big Four. Last week, even before the International Rubber Regulation Committee met in London, U. S. tiremen unanimously and harmoniously raised prices 6%, the fourth boost in nine months...
Only good that Akron could see in the war was the possibility that it might put a stop to the bigger & bigger concessions that important buyers have been demanding-and getting-for the past few months. From now on, tiremen hoped, the list price would be the actual selling price, not a fond wish. In Chicago both Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co. promptly cut 5% under Firestone's new prices...
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