Goodyear Tires Quotes

He drove into the spewing smoke of acres of burning truck tires and the planes descended and the transit cranes stood in rows at the marine terminal and he saw billboards for Hertz and Avis and Chevy Blazer, for Marlboro, Continental and Goodyear, and he realized that all the things around him, the planes taking off and landing, the streaking cars, the tires on the cars, the cigarettes that the drivers of the cars were dousing in their ashtrays--all these were on the billboards around him, systematically linked in some self-referring relationship that had a kind of neurotic tightness, an inescapability, as if the billboards were generating reality...

But we know that whatever it was, Washington did not stop helping to carry out Operation Annihilation. The US economic elite heard a very different message. Indonesia was open for business. In 1967, the first year of Suharto’s fully consolidated rule, General Electric, American Express, Caterpillar, and Goodyear Tire all came to explore the new opportunities available to them in Indonesia. Star-Kist foods arrived to see about fishing in Indonesian waters, and of course, defense contractors Raytheon and Lockheed popped over, too.

What is the difference between a tire and three hundred and sixty-five condoms?" I raised my eyebrows and shook my head slowly. “One’s a Goodyear. The other is a great year.

A few other companies were accused of overexposure to derivatives. David Garrity, an analyst at McDonald & Company, even called the Big Three automakers “basically banks masquerading as manufacturing companies” because of their financing subsidiaries. Chrysler Financial Corporation, a unit of Chrysler, had $1.5 billion of interest rate swaps and $535 million of currency swaps, and parent Chrysler had another $1 billion. Even Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company had a $500 million derivatives portfolio. I wondered who didn’t own derivatives.

Directors of the League were identified as also being directors of U.S. Steel, General Motors, Standard Oil, Chase National Bank, Goodyear Tire, and Mutual Life Insurance Company.