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Firestone's Decatur plant was closed in December 2001 and all 1,500 employees were laid off. [70] Firestone cited a decline in consumer demand for Firestone tires and the age of the Decatur plant as the reasons for closing that facility. [71] It is estimated that closing the Decatur plant cost Bridgestone/Firestone $210 million. [71]
Firestone soon saw the huge potential for marketing tires for automobiles, and the company was a pioneer in the mass production of tires. Harvey S. Firestone had a friendship with Henry Ford, and used this to become the original equipment supplier of Ford Motor Company automobiles, and was also active in the replacement market. [4]
For the next two decades, both tire manufacturers would claim race victories and speed records until Firestone left NASCAR in 1974. [4] In the late 1960s, the deaths of Jimmy Pardue and Billy Wade spurred both Goodyear and Firestone to manufacture the "Inner Liner Safety Spare," also known to NASCAR as "Lifeguard": a second internal envelope to ...
What the use-of-force video from Firestone shows Akron police, including a Firestone High School school resource officer, try to subdue a student who evaded a metal detector on Wednesday, Oct. 16.
Harvey Samuel Firestone Sr. (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was an American businessman, and the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires.
Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company (119 Cal.App.3d 757, 174 Cal.Rptr. 348) was a personal injury tort case decided in Orange County, California in February 1978 and affirmed by a California appellate court in May 1981.
Elevate, formerly Firestone Building Products, is a brand of roofing, wall and lining solutions of the Holcim Group, one of the world's largest building materials manufacturing company. Elevate operates 21 manufacturing facilities in North America and produces single–ply and asphalt–based roofing membranes, polyiso insulation, and roofing ...
Shulamith Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Firestone (born Feuerstein; [1] January 7, 1945 – August 28, 2012) [2] was a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist. Firestone was a central figure in the early development of radical feminism and second-wave feminism and a founding member of three radical-feminist groups: New York Radical Women, Redstockings, and New York Radical Feminists.