Word: tires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rubbers are not romantic. Neither are auto tires, nursing nipples, hot water bags or rubber boots. But last week rubber-romance kindled in the quiet, Gothic depths of the House of Commons. There Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pronounced a few matter-of-fact words which altered the destiny of Britain's wide-flung rubber plantations in Malaya. Straits Settlements and Ceylon. To U. S. motorists the pronouncement meant that raw rubber suitable for tire-making will probably be stabilized in price at a figure less than half of what was paid last year...
...tire] manufacturers of the United States unfortunately cannot pass on the economies which may be effected in the future through the cheaper raw material, until the stocks purchased at higher prices have been converted into goods and marketed. If there is no upswing in rubber prices by the middle of the summer, tire prices should be cheaper by that time...
...tire tycoons the most vigorous in fighting Britain's price raising scheme has been famed Harvey S. Firestone, who has established his own rubber plantations in Liberia (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). Said he, last week: "Britain no longer controls the world rubber supply. . . . This means that the motorists will eventually save millions...
...Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr. since January have been in Liberia (Africa) inspecting the two 50,000 acre plantations of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and experimenting with their radio. Last week, on a wave length of 43.5 metres over a distance of 4,600 miles, Rubberman Firestone radiobroadcast to Akron, Ohio, news of the latest Firestone plantation operations. Men in the Akron plant heard and heeded the words of their president...
...National Cash Register, Goodyear Tire & Rubber and Dodge Bros, re-organizings...