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...sentimental (and thrifty) competitors actually drove their cars to the race. But the quaint tradition that a sports car is a practical vehicle, designed for everyday use, seemed as antiquated as the Stanley Steamer or the solid-rubber tire. Well-heeled pros who turned up for the Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance last week brought their cars by rail or trailer, by plane or ship-any way but under their own power. The 5.2-mile course on Sebring's abandoned airfield was enough to tear the guts out of the finest engine. Mechanics needed every available...
...will make automated production lines. A form of the new automation is already at work making telephone relays for Western Electric, acetylene gas and carbide for the National Carbide division of Air Reduction Co., aircraft engines at Curtiss-Wright. Other firms, such as American Smelting & Refining, General Mills, Dunlop Tire & Rubber, have turned to automatic controls to produce everything from bronze castings to printed circuits and foam-rubber mattresses. In the oil industry, automation has advanced to the point where a handful of technicians can run an entire $40 million plant by remote control from a panel of instruments...
...Delegates from Cuba, Mexico. Honduras and Ecuador announced that U.S. firms were strongly interested in helping build a bottle-making plant, expanding a $4,000,000 rubber plant (Firestone Tire & Rubber) to make cheap sneakers for Mexican farmers, developing a $5,000,000 building and development project to build homes for Hondurans, operating coffee plantations in Ecuador...
...TIRE PRICES are going up again for the third time since November. B.F. Goodrich has just boosted all passenger and truck tire prices another 2½% to 5%, and the other big producers will probably soon follow suit, thus making the total price rise 15% since last fall. Reason: heavy demand, which has sent natural rubber prices up from 27⅝? to 35? a Ib. since...
Married. John Wilmer Galbreath, 57, Ohio real estate tycoon and president of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club; and Mrs. Russell Firestone, fiftyish, widow of the second son of Harvey S. Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; both for the second time; in Miami...