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Bouncing Back. U.S. tire builders, who cut prices 10% last spring, found their reductions premature. The record touring season last summer increased the demand for tires 10% above 1946. And the rise in labor and material costs nipped the profit margins of tire men. A month ago, General Tire & Rubber Co. announced a 7½% price increase. This week, the Big Four-Firestone, Goodrich, Goodyear and U.S. Rubber-followed suit. Their boosts: from...
College skiers who tire of the blue books can get away from it all at the newly established Norwegian Ski School for Americans at Kongsberg, Norway, it was announced last night...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York City went a handsome map of France from the Michelin Tire people in Paris. The map reached its goal despite the address on the envelope: "Mr. O'Dewey, Maire de New York...
...years have been kind to the famed Novello profile and his eyes still flash the same old exciting theatrical fire. His fans never seem to tire of his shameless romanticism. "I suppose," Novello once remarked, "it has given them some focus in life...
...million). The total world rayon production in 1946 was only 1.7 billion Ibs., compared to 1939's 2.3 billion. Moreover, important new customers had arisen to compete with dress manufacturers for the supply; this year the U.S. rubber industry, which decided to continue its wartime substitution of rayon tire cord for cotton, will probably take about 26% of the total U.S. production, v. 2% in 1940. Although U.S. productive capacity had more than doubled since the war began, the 900 million Ibs. being spun this year was still far short of demand...