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Harvey Firestone portrait
No full textReproduction of a portrait of Harvey Firestone of Akron, Ohio. Firestone founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in 1900. The company relied on others to produce rubber, instead focusing on tire production. By 1910, the company manufactured more than one million tires, including for Ford automobiles.
Firestone's innovations in tire design allowed automobiles to travel faster and more safely, and today as part of the Bridgestone Corporation, it is still one of the largest of its kind in the world
Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
No full textThis paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of an excess number of defective tires. Using several independent data sources we find that labor strife in the Decatur plant closely coincided with lower product quality. Count data regression models based on two data sets of tire failures by plant, year and age show significantly higher failure rates for tires produced in Decatur during the labor dispute than before or after the dispute, or than at other plants. Also, an analysis of internal Firestone engineering tests indicates that P235 tires from Decatur performed less well if they were manufactured during the labor dispute compared with those produced after the dispute, or compared with those from other, non-striking plants. Monthly data suggest that the production of defective tires was particularly high around the time wage concessions were demanded by Firestone in early 1994 and when large numbers of replacement workers and permanent workers worked side by side in late 1995 and early 1996.
Firestone Library
No full textFirestone is the repository for many of the humanities and social science collections and the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Additionally, it houses several areas open to the public. The Cotsen Children's Library offers programming and a whimsical gallery, and Firestone's Main Gallery and Milberg Gallery feature items from the library's rich collections.Original file name IMG_4554_edited-1.jp
General View, Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building, New York World's Fair
No full textVisitors at the Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building at the New York World's Fair may see the world's most modern tire made with the world's most modern efficient tire-building machinery. Here the new Firestone Champion tires are built, from raw materials to finished products. In the Exhibition Hall are dynamic displays of all Firestone Products and adjacent in a typical American farm setting is an interesting display of the most modern farm implements equipped with Firestone Ground Grip Tires
Firestone Library
No full textFirestone is the repository for many of the humanities and social science collections and the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Additionally, it houses several areas open to the public. The Cotsen Children's Library offers programming and a whimsical gallery, and Firestone's Main Gallery and Milberg Gallery feature items from the library's rich collections
Firestone Library
No full textFirestone is the repository for many of the humanities and social science collections and the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Additionally, it houses several areas open to the public. The Cotsen Children's Library offers programming and a whimsical gallery, and Firestone's Main Gallery and Milberg Gallery feature items from the library's rich collections.Original file name IMG_4554_edited-1.jp
1928 Firestone Rubber Company Building Salt Lake City, Utah
No full textblack and white photo of the Firestone Rubber Company Building 278 s 300w or 308 W 300 S Salt Lake City, Utah where Sarah Watt Lundstedt worked as a cashier and bookkeeper and her friend Stella Jorgenson worked as a stenographe
The Firestone Building at Princeton University
No full textThe building itself does not appear very large from the outside, because most of its books are stored in three partially underground levels that extend beyond the footprint of the main building. Firestone has four smaller above-ground floors, the second and fourth of which are accessible only to library staff. Princeton's book collection has outgrown Firestone's present capacity. Therefore, volumes relating to many academic subjects are no longer housed at Firestone, but at approximately a dozen other library buildings or spaces located around the campus.Original file name Firestone Library.jpe
The Firestone Building at Princeton University
No full textThe building itself does not appear very large from the outside, because most of its books are stored in three partially underground levels that extend beyond the footprint of the main building. Firestone has four smaller above-ground floors, the second and fourth of which are accessible only to library staff. Princeton's book collection has outgrown Firestone's present capacity. Therefore, volumes relating to many academic subjects are no longer housed at Firestone, but at approximately a dozen other library buildings or spaces located around the campus.Original file name Firestone Library.jpe
Typical American Farm at Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building, New York World's Fair
No full textDropped into a modernistic, whirling "World of Tomorrow," in a peaceful, quiet, typical American farm setting, complete with babbling brook, farm building and domestic animals is an interesting and instructive display of modern farming equipment. Here you may see how the Firestone Ground Grip Tire for tractors and farm implements has revolutionized agriculture to make the farmer's work easier, more efficient and more profitable. Firestone Put the Farm on Rubbe
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