Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tire makers are a notoriously jealous family and almost all of them live in Akron. But it was only a coincidence that the leading member of the family spent most of last week in Akron's Domestic Relations Court. The Federal Trade Commission was using the courtroom for hearings not on domestic relations but on unholy relations which, the Commission charged, have long existed between Goodyear Tire & Rubber and the world's biggest mail order house. Sears, Roebuck (TIME, Oct. 30). Invoking the Clayton anti-trust laws and the ancient demons of discrimination, monopoly and secret rebates...
...From 1926 when the first contract was signed through 1932 Sears' tire business amounted to $122,800,000 or nearly 10% of Goodyear's total sales...
Goodyear President Paul W. Litchfield was the least excited of all the tire executives who jam-packed the Domestic Relations Court in Akron last week. He has consistently maintained that the making of special brand merchandise is a common practice in U. S. manufacturing and wholly legitimate. Goodyear's concessions for the 1931 contract, he said, were simply a means of getting business when business was scarce...
...others of the Big Four tiremakers -Goodrich and U. S. Rubber-also manufacture special brands. But Firestone and most of the small companies regard the cheap tire as the chief source of the industry's woes. And last week many a tire man was sure that it was that embattled elder of the tire family, Harvey Samuel Firestone, who had egged the Government into Akron's Domestic Relations Court...