Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guidebook was started at the turn of the century by Edouard and André Michelin, the bearded brothers who invented the first removable bicycle tire and are credited with the introduction of the pneumatic auto tire. With the advent of the horseless carriage, André Michelin figured that a reliable guidebook would give both tourism and the tire business a boost. He was right. Today the Michelin Tire Co., still family-owned, is one of the biggest in the world. Worth some $57 million, it has plants in France, Italy, Britain, Belgium, Spain and Argentina. Michelin loses about...
...Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is somewhat famous for the basketball players on its staff. Until a few years ago even President Edward J. Thomas played on the Company team, and A.M.P. Marvin Huffman is no exception. Once a member of the Indians NCAA championship outfit, he joined Goodyear in 1940 and is now Assistant to the Vice president...
Good Gripper. B. F. Goodrich Co. brought out a new tread design on its puncture-sealing, tubeless tire. The tread has more than 10,000 tiny blocks of rubber (16 to the inch), approximately a quarter of an inch deep. When the brakes are applied, the blocks flatten out, giving the tires more traction. On icy pavements, said Goodrich, the tires will stop a car 15 to 30% faster than conventional tires...
...first civilian products to disappear after Korea was the white-wall tire, that symbol of what economists*call "conspicuous consumption." Last week NPA told rubbermen they could make whitewalls again, a sign that conspicuous civilian production was almost back...
...exports to South Africa, including jute bags, in which India has a near world monopoly. South Africa uses 15,000 tons of bags every year for packaging its crops. Negroes and poor whites use them as beds, blankets, carpets and doormats. Now old bags are being patched like tire tubes. A farmer who clothed his Negro laborers in jute, with holes cut for head, arms and legs, was fined not for underpaying and ill-treating his help, but for destroying bags. In desperation, the Malan government went to the black market...