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...booming rubber industry, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Chairman P. W. Litchfield announced the biggest expansion program in his company's history: $114 million to increase production both at home and abroad. In the U.S. new plants and machines will boost production of tires, foam rubber, aircraft products, flooring and chemicals, while overseas new Goodyear tire plants will spring up in Scotland, Colombia, Venezuela and the Philippines. Said Litchfield, noting Goodyear's record 1955 sales of $1.3 billion and $59 million profit: "Our plants, both in this country and abroad, have all been operating at full capacity during the past...
...vast road construction program, voted to assess highway users nearly $14 billion in new taxes over the next 16 years. Among the committee recommendations: a 1? hike in the present 2?-per-gallon gasoline and diesel fuel tax; a 3?-per-lb. increase in the present 5?-per-lb. tire tax; a 2% increase in the tax on the sales price of trucks, buses and trailers; a new annual tax of $1.50 per 1,000 lbs. on trucks weighing more than...
...business hard. "A lot of businesses," said Edward Eagle Brown, board chairman of Chicago's First National Bank, "would have cut back on their expansion plans." What Ike's "affirmative" answer did was to convince U.S. industry that governmental encouragement of free enterprise would continue. Said Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Board Chairman P. W. Litchfield: "Our economy does better when the political climate is favorable to giving the American system of free enterprise a full chance to produce. The three Eisenhower years have provided this improved climate, and business has responded by producing and selling more goods, hiring...
...class: 139.373 m.p.h. Chryslers of the same model ran the mile at least 10 m.p.h. slower. To get such spectacular performance out of his big (340 h.p.) car, Kiekhaefer kept his highly trained mechanics working for weeks at tuning the engine, test-driving the car, turning the tires down on a tire lathe until they were as bald as racing rubber, and perfectly balanced. All Flock had to do to beat his less elaborately prepared competitors was push the accelerator to the floorboard and steer...
Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge averages four speeches a week to civic and business groups, makes countless public appearances as president of the politically potent University of Georgia alumni association, conducts a weekly TV panel show. Georgia Spotlight, under a local tire company's sponsorship. But for all his activity. Talmadge has been uncommonly coy about making his long-expected announcement of candidacy for the U.S. Senate against Walter F. George. Some Georgians, in fact, have begun to ask if Herman really means...