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...Washington, however, is a more skeptical and pessimistic personage. Like those of Calvin Coolidge, his nostrils seem assailed by perpetually disagreeable odors. The Washington nostrils might have distended even more, had their owner heard of: 1) a project to sell his effigy painted on imitation leather as a back tire cover for auto mobiles; 2) a Manhattan theatre where a box office clerk had to tell a patron that a cinema called The Hatchet Man (see p. 28) was not about the father of his country; 3) a song called "Father of the Land We Love," written by George Michael...
John Webster Thomas, 51, was elected president of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., succeeding Founder Harvey Samuel Firestone who became chairman after being president 29 years. Fortnight ago Mr. Firestone pleased stockholders when he told them the company had earned almost four times as much in 1931 as in 1930. Last week, they were reassured, the new title did not mean his retirement. John Thomas started as Firestone's first chemist. He was then 28, got a salary of $100 a month, a $10 raise from his previous job. The company employed about 700 men, and a corner...
Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, sponsored by Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Mondays...
...seems incredible that at the Show a whole floor was devoted to specialties. It would take a car a block long to carry everything that was offered to refine the pleasure of motoring. There were windproof matches, cigaret lighters, electric clocks, radio outlets, pneumatic foot rests, fancy metal tire covers, heated windshield wipers, sunvisors. There was an ejector spring that opens the door at a touch on the handle. More costly was a shock absorber system operated from the dash which lets the driver adjust his car to the roughness of the road (called "ride control," featured on Buick, Graham...
...year ended Oct. 31, 1931) showed profits of $6,028,000. While this was less than Firestone has earned in most recent years, it was almost four times the 1930 figure despite greatly reduced sales volume. Cheering to shareholders was Mr. Firestone's assertion that "in 1930 . . . 20% more tire mileage was consumed than was sold and approximately the same was true in 1931. We feel, therefore, that this vacuum must soon be filled and that we can look forward to a considerably greater volume of business in 1932." Fallen Fruit. Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Co. was formed in 1924 after...