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FIRST SYNTHETIC RUBBER plant to be privately financed since the war will be built by El Paso Natural Gas Co. (TIME, Dec. 5) and General Tire & Rubber Co. In its first venture into the chemical industry, El Paso will feed natural gasoline, butane and propane into a $30 million plant at Odessa, Texas, and General Tire will convert the materials into synthetic rubber...
...tooled up for the famous front-wheel-drive Citroën. But it was too late: Citroën owed too much. One day in 1934, a creditor came calling who could not be turned away with fine language and fine wines. Pierre Michelin, tycoon of Michelin Tire Co., France's largest tiremakers, who had bought up an estimated 63% of Citroën's stock, told André Citroën: "Monsieur, you have nothing more to do here." Citroën lost the company, the Eiffel Tower lights winked out, and six months later Citro...
...pipes above the real exhaust vents. The most complicated rear end appears on the Dodge Custom Royal Lancer, whose chrome-scrolled tail fenders sprout sharklike fins and snorkel-like radio antennae. Ford's Thunderbird had a functional reason for a big change in the rear. It hung the tire mount outside to make more room in the luggage compartment...
Next day, the first day of school, Dean is greeted by his classmates as "a new disease," and during a field trip to the planetarium, a leather-jacketed roughneck slashes a tire on his car. "You read too many comic books." says Dean. They fight with knives. Dean wins. The boy challenges him to a "chickie run" -a dash to the edge of a cliff in two stolen cars; first man to jump out before the cars go over the brink is "chicken." Caught between folly and disgrace. Dean asks his father what to do. Father funks out. Dean makes...
...James Crane Kellogg III, 40, senior partner in Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, Wall Street's biggest specialists firm with 55 stocks (American Airlines, Boeing, General Tire, Union Oil, etc.), who put up $618,000 for 25,000 shares of American Airlines alone to support the market during the cardiac break, at one point was $163,000 in the hole. ¶John Coleman, 53, head of Adler, Coleman & Co. (53 stock issues, including American Tobacco, Armour, Motorola). ¶Benjamin Einhorn, 48, partner in Astor & Rose, which handles Sperry Rand and 14 other stocks...