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...will keep his other position as chairman and chief executive. Philadelphia-born President McGovern never got to college, instead took a two-year course in accounting before starting in with U.S. Rubber as an accountant in 1920. Working up the ranks, he was control manager of the tire division by 1933. His big jump came in 1941, when he rapidly organized U.S. Rubber's first venture into the munitions business, bossed a division that turned out World War II explosives, 20-mm. and 40-mm. shells. With President McGovern just three years from mandatory retirement, U.S. Rubber also tapped...
...Just Honestly." Loyal fans were not dying to have them go. They would not soon forget bald, bulb-nosed-Kukla and mischievous Ollie. the one-toothed dragon who could not breathe tire because his father swallowed too much water swimming the Hellespont. Or sensitive Fletcher Rabbit, who complained when he washed his flop-ears: "I can't do a thing with them," or Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Halloween, or their foil and sweetheart Fran Allison, the only live character on the show, with her infectious Midwesternisms ("Wouldn't you just know that...
After lunch (with two martinis) he naps for an hour, putters around in the flower garden (he tends the roses), and reads until he picks up Bernice at the station. After dinner Cozzens goes to his study, "where I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer." Cozzens' sole hobby is a pop record collection, vintage 1920 to 1927-Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman-which he plays by the hour on his hi-fi set. "Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking...
...four years, new industrial investment totaled $612 million, including some $70 million of U.S. capital (bringing U.S. investment in Cuba, mostly in public utilities and sugar, to $750 million by last year). Projects completed or under way include the island's first steel plant ($16 million), two tire factories, new oil-refining facilities ($70 million), expansion of the U.S. Government-owned nickel plant at Nicaro ($37 million). The boom shows no sign of slackening. Planned for the future: a $147 million expansion program by a subsidiary of American & Foreign Power Co.. a $75 million nickel-mining operation...
MUTUAL BROADCASTING, in the past a money-losing system, is being taken over from RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary, by a syndicate headed by Oilman Armand Hammer, who will become chairman, and Los Angeles Radio Executive Paul Roberts, who will become president. Group paid about $750,000 for network's good will and advertising contracts with 480 U.S., Canadian stations...