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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1920. 



sisting of four and one-half acres of land on East Market street, 

 with frontage near Martha avenue. The company manufactures 

 all kinds of gears as well as rubber machinery, cores, and molds. 

 Contracts for the new structure will be let at an early date. 

 The officers of the company are: J. Asa Palmer, president; 

 W. F. Warden, vice-president; \\'. J. Frank, secretary and as- 

 sistant treasurer ; Otis E. Prier, treasurer and assistant secretary ; 

 T. A. Seacrist, general manager; J. R. Triplett, sales manager; 

 William A. Brubaker, superintendent and mechanical engineer. 

 The above, in addition to N._C. Stone, president of the National 

 City Bank, Akron, comprise the board of directors. 



During the past month the men on the Akron city 

 street-car lines struck for increased wages and the rub- 

 ber companies, in order to bring their operatives to 

 work, were compelled to organize one of the greatest 

 truck transportation systems ever devised in the city. Suf- 

 ficient warning of the coming of the strike was given and 

 the whole emergency system of transportation was com- 

 pleted and officially announced in factory publications 

 at least one week before the men actually went out. 



Another opportunity was presented by the coming of 

 the strike to show the importance the automobile and 

 the truck holds in the business world of to-day. Re- 

 ports from the various factories indicate production 

 was affected little, if any. 



Ralph Upson, C. R. Johnson and C. M. McCreery, 

 all in the aeronautical department of The Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co., and their wives, set a new record 

 when they took their Fourth of July picnic dinner in 

 a free balloon several thousand feet in the air. 



More than 600 factory foremen were guests of H. S. 

 Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 

 at an outing given on Mr. Firestone's farm the latter 

 part of June. It required a line of automobiles more 

 than a mile and one-half long to transport the men to 

 the farm. The day was spent in sports of various 

 kinds, followed by a country dinner. The outing this 

 year was the seventh given the foremen by Mr. Fire- 

 stone. 



John Gammetcr, of the experimental department of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co. has been named a member of the newly 

 created State Aviation Commission. 



F. W. Work, brother of B. G. Work, president of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., was grand marshal of an Independence Day parade 

 in Akron, Monday, July 5. Approximately 8,000 persons were 

 in line. 



;ion to be given by the Akron 



Flying Club in the fall are being discussed. The plans provide 

 for a more elaborate show than was held at Wright Field here 

 recently. 



H. C. Berry, of the Berry Airship Co., of California, has spent 

 some time in Akron superintending the building of a dirigible 

 by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. for himself. The new 

 machine will embody several features patented by Mr. Berry 

 which will increase the speed of dirigibles. 



Daily flights to Cleveland were made by airships from Akron 

 during the aviation show held in that city July 2-7. The 



Firestone Wins Industrial Track Championship at 

 Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. 



5 Secon 

 First in 

 i Meet. 



100-Var 

 440-Ya 

 E Relay 



Mil 



, Third. 



Left. 2 John Miller 

 no Firestone's Colors 

 Decided the Outcome 

 ENGER Took First and 



"pony" blimp, the only one-man dirigible on the market, was 

 among the ships which made the flight. 



A total of 4,200 men and women enrolled in the Americaniza- 

 tion classes conducted this year in Akron under the auspices of 

 the Board of Education. E. C. Vermillion, formerly in charge 

 of the Firestone Americanization work, is director. A total of 

 136 classes was served by 105 teachers. Classes were held in 

 basements of churches, homes, factories and in rooming houses. 

 The outlook for next year is still brighter. 



The Industrial Salvage Co., organized by George W. Sherman, 

 formerly in charge of the salvage department of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., is upon a paying basis and will be able to declare 

 a small dividend this year. The company has dealt largely with 

 salvaged boilers and machinery during the past year. The war 

 left a large amount of machinery in factories which is now use- 

 less in its present location and the company has been busy buying 

 it up and shipping it to other locations where it is needed. 

 The plan to make a house-to-house collection of salvage was 

 ]iiistponed because of the amount of business coming to the 

 rompany. 



The Miller Rubber Co., Akron, increased its sales 63^/2 per cent 

 ■ luring the six inonths ended July 1, 1920. From 191S to 1919, 

 the company's sales have increased 1,300 per cent. The business 

 of the present year, it is estimated, will total $50,000,000. 



The India Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, has made the following 

 appointments : J. E. McGinnes, formerly branch manager for 

 the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. in Milwaukee and manager of 



