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Fisk Tire Company
The Fisk Tire Company was an American tire company. It was a major force in the US tire industry from the late 1900s to late 1920s. History In 1898, the Spaulding and Pepper Co was sold to Noyes W. Fisk and renamed the Fisk Rubber Co. It employed more than 600 people in 1910 and more than 3,000 during World War I (with a weekly payroll averaging $48,000). By 1917, the company employed 4,500 people with a $70,000 payroll. The company was headquartered in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. In the 1920s, Fisk also had plants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Jewett City, Connecticut, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In the 1920s, there were Fisk Retail Stores in 40 states; and the Chicopee plant turned out 5,000 tires a day. The company experienced a gradual decline in market share, forced down into the category of a medium-sized firm. It was an industry leader but was in receivership from 1931 to 1933; the receivers overseeing the company cut the prices of tires in January 1933 as part of an ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fisk Tire 1917 Newspaper Ad
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General Motors
The General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is the largest automaker in the United States and was the largest in the world for 77 years before losing the top spot to Toyota in 2008. General Motors operates manufacturing plants in eight countries. Its four core automobile brands are Chevrolet, Buick, GMC (automobile), GMC, and Cadillac. It also holds interests in Chinese brands Wuling Motors and Baojun as well as DMAX (engines), DMAX via joint ventures. Additionally, GM also owns the BrightDrop delivery vehicle manufacturer, GM Defense, a namesake Defense vehicles division which produces military vehicles for the United States government and military; the vehicle safety, security, and information services provider OnStar; the auto parts company ACDelco, a GM Financial, namesake financial lending service; and majority ownership in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Museum Of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. The first portion of the approximately building was built in 1880. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Martin (illustrator)
Paul Martin (June 6, 1883 – March 19, 1932) was an American commercial artist and illustrator. His artwork appeared on over two dozen covers of '' Collier's'' and ''Parents'' during the 1920s. Martin designed the then-largest-ever electrical display in 1917. It towered above Times Square until 1924. He reshaped the then-famous mascot of Fisk Tires in 1930. Martin designed the official poster for the Girl Scouts in 1931. It was displayed at their troop meetings from 1931 to 37. He played in sanctioned tennis tournaments around the New York metropolitan area from 1909 to 31. USLTA sanctioned. This span includes all of the in-between years. It's backed up internally (within this article). ''Bronxville Press'', Aug 16, 1932 p. 4 – news.hrvh.org. He was a tennis enthusiast. It kept him from becoming with work, and from reaching higher artistic heights. This included the U.S. National Championships (now US Open) of 1920– 21, 24 (all after age 35). The Paul Martin Singles Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kid
The Kid or The Kids may refer to: Fictional characters * The kid (''Blood Meridian''), a character in Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel ''Blood Meridian'' * The Kid (''The Matrix''), a character in the ''Matrix'' film series * The Kid (''The Stand''), a character in Stephen King's 1978 novel ''The Stand'' * Marshall Eriksen or The Kid, a character in ''How I Met Your Mother'' * The Kid, a character in the 1984 film '' Purple Rain'', played by Prince * The Kid, the narrator of Samuel R. Delany's 1975 novel ''Dhalgren'' * The Kid, a character in ''Bastion'' * The Kid, a character in '' Driver: Parallel Lines'' * The Kid, a character in '' Freedom Fighters'' * The Kid, a character in ''I Wanna Be the Guy'' * The Kid, a character in ''Jak II'' Films * ''The Kid'' (1910 film), a film by Frank Powell * ''The Kid'' (1921 film), a Charlie Chaplin film * ''The Kid'' (1950 film), a Hong Kong film that stars a young Bruce Lee * ''The Kid'' (1997 film), a film featuring Rod Steiger * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelin
Michelin (; ; full name: ) is a French multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ''région'' of France. It is the second largest tyre manufacturer in the world behind Bridgestone and larger than both Goodyear and Continental. In addition to the Michelin brand, it also owns the Kléber tyres company, Uniroyal-Goodrich Tire Company, SASCAR, Bookatable and Camso brands. Michelin is also notable for its Red and Green travel guides, its roadmaps, the Michelin stars that the Red Guide awards to restaurants for their cooking, and for its company mascot ''Bibendum'', colloquially known as the Michelin Man. Michelin's numerous inventions include the removable tyre, the pneurail (a tyre for rubber-tyred metros) and the radial tyre. Michelin manufactures tyres for Space Shuttles, aircraft, automobiles, heavy equipment, motorcycles, and bicycles. In 2012, the group produced 166 million tyres at 69 facilities located in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discount Tire
Discount Tire Company is an independent tire and wheel retailer. Discount Tire operates in most of the lower 48 states in the United States, and is the largest independent tire and wheel retailer in the world. The company is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. Company history Discount Tire was founded in 1960, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Bruce Halle, Bruce T. Halle. The company grew to over 200 stores by 1990 and opened its 500th store in 2002. On September 10, 2018, Discount Tire opened its 1000th store in Phoenix, Arizona. Discount Tire entered the northeast market with a location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in February 2020; it as grown from a small business into the largest retailer of tires and wheels in the world. Discount Tire is no longer owned by Bruce Halle, but is now owned by Reinalt-Thomas Corp. Halle was the first CEO, followed by Tom Englert, followed by Michael Zuieback, who assumed the CEO position in January 2015. In the spring of 2021, Discount Tire s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uniroyal
The company formerly known as the United States Rubber Company, now Uniroyal, is an American manufacturer of tires and other synthetic rubber-related products, as well as variety of items for military use, such as ammunition, explosives, chemical weapons and operations and maintenance activities (O&MA) at the government-owned contractor-operated facilities. It was founded in Naugatuck, Connecticut, in 1892. It was one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and became Uniroyal, Inc., as part of creating a unified brand for its products and subsidiaries in 1961. The company's long-lived advertisement slogan was "''United States Tires are Good Tires''." One of Uniroyal's best known tires is the ''Tiger Paw'' introduced in the 1960s and included as original equipment for that decade's muscle cars such as the Pontiac GTO, which itself was promoted as The Tiger during its early years. Today, Uniroyal still uses the Tiger Paw brand name in its tire line. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagion began around September and led to the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24 (Black Thursday). It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II. Devastating effects were seen in both rich and poor countries with falling personal income, prices, tax revenues, and profits. International trade fell by more than 50%, unemployment in the U.S. rose to 23% and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Original Equipment Manufacturer
An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces non-aftermarket parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer. It is a common industry term recognized and used by many professional organizations such as SAE International, ISO, and others. However, the term is also used in several other ways, which causes ambiguity. It sometimes means the maker of a system that includes other companies' subsystems, an end-product producer, an automotive part that is manufactured by the same company that produced the original part used in the automobile's assembly, or a value-added reseller.Ken Olsen: PDP-1 and PDP-8 (page 3) , economicadventure.com Automotive parts When referring to auto parts, OEM refers to the manufactur ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Rubber Company
The company formerly known as the United States Rubber Company, now Uniroyal, is an American manufacturer of tires and other synthetic rubber-related products, as well as variety of items for military use, such as ammunition, explosives, chemical weapons and operations and maintenance activities (O&MA) at the government-owned contractor-operated facilities. It was founded in Naugatuck, Connecticut, in 1892. It was one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and became Uniroyal, Inc., as part of creating a unified brand for its products and subsidiaries in 1961. The company's long-lived advertisement slogan was "''United States Tires are Good Tires''." One of Uniroyal's best known tires is the ''Tiger Paw'' introduced in the 1960s and included as original equipment for that decade's muscle cars such as the Pontiac GTO, which itself was promoted as The Tiger during its early years. Today, Uniroyal still uses the Tiger Paw brand name in its tire line. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noyes W
Noyes is an English surname of patronymic origin, deriving from the given name Noah. Notable people with the surname include: * Albertina Noyes (born 1949), American figure skater * Alfred Noyes (1880–1958), English poet * Arthur Amos Noyes (1866–1936), American chemist, inventor and educator * Arthur Noyes (organist) (1862–1929), church organist in South Australia * Arthur Percy Noyes (1880–1963), psychiatric administrator and educator * Arthur H. Noyes (1853–1915), U.S. federal judge * Beppie Noyes (1919–2007), American author and illustrator * Blanche Noyes (1900–1981), American pioneering female aviator * Clara Noyes (1869–1936), American nurse and Director of the Red Cross Nursing Service during World War I * Crosby Stuart Noyes (1825–1908), American newspaper publisher * Dorothy Noyes (born 1960), American folklorist and ethnologist * Edward Noyes (c. 1858–1920), co-founder of Australian engineering company Noyes Brothers * Edward Follansbee Noyes (1832 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
