Business: Rubber into One

George Taylor Bishop, 67, president of Continental Shares, Inc., gave a luncheon party in Manhattan last week for rubbermen and bankers. Cyrus Stephen Eaton, founder of Continental Shares, was not among the 32 guests but had he been he would have approved of everything that was done.

Chief result of the luncheon was a virtual agreement to place control of the rubber industry in the hands of one man. As was expected, the one man picked was Mr. Bishop. His qualifications are long banking associations with the industry (onetime director of Cleveland Trust)...

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