Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. In Liberia 350,000 natives toil on the Firestone rubber plantation project. In Singapore is a Firestone rubber preparation plant. Firestone products include tires, tubes, steel rims, wooden wheels, rubber heels, batteries, boots, rubber clothing, brake-lining. Last week the company declared a 400% common stock dividend, offered a $60,000,000 issue of 6% preferred stock.
I. T. & T. Dr. Carl Friedrich von Siemens, German electric tycoon, last week grew wrathful over the "unpatriotic and growing practice" of letting foreigners buy into German companies. Direct cause of the von Siemens anger...
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