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Show ANNOUNCES NEW SALES MANAGER A L. C. Eockhill, who fills newly created cre-ated position with Goodyear Tire & Rubber company. The automobile industry jyncrally and the tire world particularly will be interested in the announcement by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company of Akron, Ohio? of the creation of the position of sales manager and tlie. appointment ap-pointment to that position of L. C. RoekhilJ, who is widely known in the trade. The appointment, coming as it does at a time when Goodyear is able to announce an-nounce the close of the most successful year in its already remarkable history, with a total gross sales of over $169,-000,000, $169,-000,000, will attract wide attention to the man who will direct the sales policies pol-icies of this great American industry, activities of which reach to the far corners of the world. Mr. Rockhill lifts been with Goodyear Good-year something over twelve years. Previous Pre-vious to that time he was in the advertising ad-vertising department of a Cleveland newspaper. His first service with Goodyear was in charge of the repair department, which was a subdivision of the automobile tire department, handling han-dling repairs and adjustments. He was successively made manager of the aeronautical aero-nautical department, manager of the automobile tire department and assistant assis-tant sales manager in charge of tire sales. The Goodyear announcement is in line with its consistent policy of recog uizing ability and rewarding loyal service in its ranks, and Mr. Rockhiil's advancement to the position of sales manager follows naturally bv virtue of his long experience with sales work. |