Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delegates from Cuba, Mexico. Honduras and Ecuador announced that U.S. firms were strongly interested in helping build a bottle-making plant, expanding a $4,000,000 rubber plant (Firestone Tire & Rubber) to make cheap sneakers for Mexican farmers, developing a $5,000,000 building and development project to build homes for Hondurans, operating coffee plantations in Ecuador...
...uncertain future. A tire or tie-rod failure on a Mercedes-Benz, an army plot like the two Pérez Jiménez staged, or a simple slip-up by a guard or a food-taster might remove the strongman from the scene. Lacking democracy's orderly system for succession, Venezuela might suffer a turbulent struggle for power...
...TIRE PRICES are going up again for the third time since November. B.F. Goodrich has just boosted all passenger and truck tire prices another 2½% to 5%, and the other big producers will probably soon follow suit, thus making the total price rise 15% since last fall. Reason: heavy demand, which has sent natural rubber prices up from 27⅝? to 35? a Ib. since...
Married. John Wilmer Galbreath, 57, Ohio real estate tycoon and president of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club; and Mrs. Russell Firestone, fiftyish, widow of the second son of Harvey S. Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; both for the second time; in Miami...
Elizabeth Kalkhurst was forceful in the rather forbidding title role, although she failed to make any transition between her original coldness and her final surrender. Her intonation was weak in the first and last at, especially in the last when her voice seemed to tire badly; her singing in the second act showed what she could do for a whole evening if she would peace herself properly. James Greene, as Hilarion, floated amiably through his part; his voice has a lyrical quality which served him well in singing but contributed to the insipidity of his acting...