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Morrison was removing his tire chains by the side of Route 110 when a car driven by Richard Deignault of Burlington, Vermont skidded on the slippery road behind him and threw him 100 feet. Neither Deignault nor Mrs. Morrison, who was sitting in the parked car, were injured...
...complete with contracts signed for 689,000 tons out of its total 865,000-ton capacity. So far, the U.S. has sold 22 of its 27 World War II plants (cost: $500 million), is now negotiating contracts to sell or lease four more. Among the buyers last week: Goodyear Tire & Rubber, which bought two plants with 116,000-ton annual capacity; Firestone Tire & Rubber, two plants with 130,000-ton capacity; Humble Oil & Refining Co., two plants with 89,000-ton capacity...
...Street, those of 57th Street (and of the East 60s and "70s, to which many galleries have recently migrated) are usually just looking. With a good visual memory and a will for the work, any looker can build a splendid art museum in his own mind-where feet never tire and the lighting is good. Among New York's candidates for such imaginary museums this week were the works shown on these pages. Their quality (and lack of it), as well as their extraordinary range, were typical of the New York art world at midseason...
...m.p.h., and from there into cars which will then speed up to 15 m.p.h. for the two-minute trip to Times Square and slow down again to let them off. Builder of the new shuttle: Akron's Passenger Belt Conveyor, Inc., a newly-formed affiliate of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the world's biggest rubber company...
Back home, Litchfield designed the first successful U.S. pneumatic tire, got a patent, and put Goodyear in production. By 1906 he was back in Britain, and this time Goodyear won. Says Litchfield: "That's when we really started to go." By 1916 Goodyear's sales overtook its biggest competitors, Goodrich and Diamond, even though they merged to fend off Goodyear. With the tire business booming, Litchfield soon started exploring other fields, made the first U.S. Navy blimps and balloons in World War I, later tried its hand at dirigibles. In World War II the company...