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Show TIRE SAVINGS IN NEW PRICE Fifty Mil1 ion Dollars Will Be Cut From Auto Expenses in Year B. 1" Goodrich announces now prices on all Its one-quality automobile automo-bile tires, a reduction of from 10 to 13 per cent A saving to American motorists of at leaM fifty million dollars dol-lars this year. This tremendous saving in cost to the entire automobile Industry is j made in the face of a determined of- j fort to control the rubber markets of; tho world by the British and tho 1 Dutch governments. Cotton, which is the biggest element in, the cost of th modern tire. Is materially rising in price, and in tho face of a steadily increasing world consumption, with one of the smallest hold-over crops In years, and with oVily a normal 1 crop In sight for this year, cotton 13 bound to go much higher. A conservative estlmtae of tho au-tomobllc au-tomobllc tire bill for the United states in 1 922 places It at over half a billion bil-lion dollars, which means that tho 1 price reduction on tires will save Am- ri.iin motorists over $50,000,000. The largest Items In th cost of motor mo-tor transportation have been gasoline ' and tires, which up to now have boon j 011 auooi -cii ic. nio. i uo nrrvr 111 era mean that hereafter tiro upkeep Is reduced to approximately one-half of tho fuel cost. In an effort toward the creation of lower transportation costs, many rubber rub-ber manufacturers have introduce. 1 second grade lines of cord tires, but Goodrich maintains that the lower tire cost Is to bo found In Its ono quality standard Sllvertown Tire, whic htak.s part with the entire Goodrich line of Sllvertown and fabric fab-ric tires In the general reduction. |