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Show mm mm" HOLDS ITS REM Invites All District Managers Man-agers to Central Plant to Study Growth. All of th district managers of the sales organization of tUe Goodyear Tire & Kubber company spcr.t the week at the onera oftVes of the company at Akron, reviewing the remarkable strides (roodyear linn U:en making, and planning plan-ning "for the future. Men in close contact with trade conditions con-ditions from coast to coast and from the lakes to the exchanged ex per i- tn's and idms, and the I'niiM-nMis uf reports re-ports is that 'joodyi-ar in well embarked on the most sue csf ul manufacturing and hales year in (ioodyear. history. An in teres tin; development of the conference con-ference is 1 lie remark able increase in sales ami popularity of Goodyear cord tires. Figures and contracts were shown proving that of the new cars for 191(5 which manufacturers are equipping with cord tires, two out of every three will be equipped wrJi Goodyear cords. Huch manufacturers as Packard, Locomobile Loco-mobile and Franklin already use Goodyear Good-year cords an standard tire equipment, and other contracts, already obtained, are shortly to be announced. This "two-out of -three ' ' announcement announce-ment rousod the greatest of enthusiasm among the Goudyear hustlers, as it is even a greater proportion of the manufacturers manu-facturers ' business, in tho cord tiro field, than the proportion earlier announced an-nounced as Goodyear 'a share of all manufacture' man-ufacture' business for 1016. Goodyear tires of fabric or cord construction will equip ono of every three new cars made this year. Good vear cord tires will equip two out ot' everv three new ears on which cord fires will be used. In the equipment of cars already running run-ning the reports of the district managers man-agers show that Goodyear dealers' business busi-ness is also growing amazingly and that this year "Goodyear service stations" are more thoroughly what the name indicates in-dicates than they have ever been before. |