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Another bankruptcy, last week, was the Mason Tire & Rubber Co. of Cleveland...
...these Goodyear with assets of $179,000,000 is the largest. Goodrich makes the widest variety of rubber goods. Seiberling is the most redoubtable, starting from below zero only six years ago. Dunlop is unusual because, controlled by the British Tire & Rubber Corp. (Sir Eric Campbell Geddes is chairman) it has become important in the U. S. bicycle and motor car trade. U. S. Rubber has Malayan rubber plantations so extensive that it worries little over foreign control of rubber production. Firestone the past two years has made like enterprise in Liberia...
Fisk (from Chicopee Falls, Mass.) and Hood (from Watertown, Mass.) have impressed tire-users with their intimate advertising ? Fisk with its fetching "time- to-re-tire" child, Hood with its blue uniformed traffic arrester. Kelly-Springfield has definitely associated its tires with the most expensive makes of motor cars; deliberately it has made itself the "class" supplier. Miller has made its tire reputation equal its early reputation for druggist sundries. Less important than these are Ajax and Manhattan...
...Henry Ford is a motor tycoon, Harvey Firestone a tire tycoon...
...Harvey Firestone Jr. were frequently in company with Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford, last week, and landed with them from the Majestic (see above). They were met on the dock in Manhattan by famed Akron (Ohio) Tire Man Harvey Firestone Sr., who told interviewers that Harvey Jr. has just returned from the Afric Republic of Liberia where the Firestones have established rubber plantations which have been partially instrumental in breaking down the British rubber monopoly (TIME...