Targets included three Ford showrooms ; Peugeot and IKA-Renault showrooms ; Goodyear and Firestone tire distributors, the pharmaceutical manufacturers Riker and Eli Lilly, the Union Carbide Battery Company, the Bank of Boston, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Xerox Corporation, and the soft drink companies, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.

The primary players and the pioneers of this second wave of feminism included the likes of Shulamith Firestone, Kathie Sarachild, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Carol Hanisch, and Judith Brown.

Classical music programs on the air included The Voice of Firestone and The Bell Telephone Hour.

Other radio shows included The Prudential Family Hour, Screen Guild Playhouse and The Voice of Firestone which featured the top opera and concert singers of the time.

The radial donuts, provided by the division's usual tire suppliers, included Firestone 500s and B. F. Goodrich Lifesaver T / As.

Other contestants included Tony Bennett, The Blackwood Brothers, Lenny Bruce, Roy Clark, Rosemary Clooney, Ken Berry, Florian ZaBach, Wally Cox, Vic Damone, The Diamonds, Eddie Fisher, Connie Francis, Don Knotts, Steve Lawrence, Al Martino, Barbara McNair, Marian McPartland, Johnny Nash, Leslie Uggams, Lorraine Donahue ( who later appeared on The Voice of Firestone ) and Jonathan Winters.

There were many companies making liners during the war — Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company made most of them, while other companies included, The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, CAPAC Manufacturing, Inland Division of General Motors, Mine Safety Appliances, Seaman Paper Company, and International Molded Plastics.

These included threats by the League of Nations led by Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States to recolonize the country unless reforms were made, aggressive actions by France and a coup attempt by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company which owned much of Liberia's land.

In May 2006, the United Nations Mission in Liberia ( UNMIL ) released a report: “ Human Rights in Liberia ’ s Rubber Plantations: Tapping into the Future ” which detailed the results of its investigation into the conditions on the Firestone plantation in Liberia.

KCET's 2012 schedule includes, " Open Call ," a weekly series showcasing arts and culture in Southern California hosted by opera sensation Suzanna Guzman ; expansion of its interview program, LA Tonight with Roy Firestone ; as well as Your Turn to Care, a four-part documentary about caregivers hosted by Holly Robinson Peete and its complementary online site: www. yourturntocare. org ; BBC crime drama Inspector George Gently ; and Classic Cool Theater, a showcase of classic films, cartoons and newsreels.

Throughout the difficulties, Congressman Glenn M. Anderson ( D-San Pedro ) tirelessly advocated for the route's construction, touting its possibilities for congestion relief along Century, Manchester, and Firestone Boulevards and the Imperial Highway ; it succeeded in these tasks, as well as relieving pressure on the Santa Monica ( I-10 ) and San Diego ( I-405 ) Freeways for travelers between Downtown Los Angeles and LAX.

* August 23-Demolition of Wallis, Gilbert and Partners ' Art Deco Firestone Tyre Factory ( 1928 ) on the ' Golden Mile ' of London's Great West Road a week before its designation as a listed building.

The abandoned housing tract was a former neighbourhood which was placed-along the west-side of I-605, around the Alondra Bl offramp ; Firestone Bl CA 42 was to its north, with Alondra Bl to its south.

Firestone was originally based in Akron, Ohio, also the hometown of its archrival, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.

The IndyCar Series Firestone Indy 200 was run at the track from its opening until 2008.

The program was sponsored by Firestone Tire Company and aired on Monday nights at 8: 30pm Eastern Standard Time from its 1928 inception.

The tyres were introduced by Firestone, based on its experience in American open wheel racing series.

Firestone had intended to close its European Racing Division, and their teams were using up old stock that had been produced some time before.

Her family Americanized its surname to Firestone when Shulamith was a child.

Like its metal counterparts, it too was a monocoque, built up out of only eight separate pieces and, for good measure, featured the world's first fully functioning air suspension, previously developed in 1933 by Firestone.

As a part of the original five-year sponsorship agreement, the event continues to be held at its traditional site of the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio ; the sponsorship has now been extended to 2014.

The event takes its name from the World Series of Poker, and has no relationship to the original World Series of Golf tournament played at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio from 1962 to 1998.

* Texas Motor Speedway calls its Global RallyCross Championship race held during Firestone Firehawk 550 weekend as the " Hoon Kaboom ", as the typical GRC car are similar to types of cars " hoons " will typically drive.

In it Dyer provides a loving but complicated portrait of her father and a view of the relationships among Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, its employees, and the city of Akron, Ohio.

Groucho's character — originally named " Rufus T. Firestone "— eventually became Rufus T. Firefly, while the name of Harpo's character — named Pinky in the final product — was given in the pressbook as " Brownie ".

His non-fiction book Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs which deals with the biggest product liability case in history, the Ford and Firestone controversy, was published in 2003 and is currently being made into a movie.

It is also revealed on a Simpsons DVD commentary that he was to appear in the episode " Bart Star " but, due to the scandal, was replaced by Roy Firestone.

As a result, the tour was not only postponed but expanded, and his Pleasure Principle 30th Anniversary Tour's American and Mexican dates began on 17 October 2010, at Firestone Live in Orlando, Florida.

The first race car ( in concept only ) fitted with a turbine was in 1955 by a US Air Force group as a hobby project with a turbine loaned them by Boeing and a race car owned by Firestone Tire & Rubber company.

Schmidt Motorsports has become a top IZOD IndyCar Series team, winning the 2011 Indianapolis 500 pole position in the Firestone Fast Nine, but was the hardest hit in the 2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship tragedy.

The large Routemaster tyres were moulded and cured, just to the south on the Great West Road in Brentford by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company whose factory was opened there in 1928.

The town was named for Jacob Firestone, a landowner.

In 1937, their huge plant waterfront on Water Street was acquired by the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company and soon employed 2, 600 people.

The American trucking industry was birthed through Akron's Rubber Capital of the World era when the four major tire companies Goodrich Corporation ( 1869 ), Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company ( 1898 ), Firestone Tire and Rubber Company ( 1900 ),< ref >

In 2001 the AJC initiated a new project designed to advance understanding between Muslims and Jews by publishing two books: Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims, by Professor Reuven Firestone, a scholar of Islam at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, was written to describe Judaism to Muslims ; Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam for Jews, by professor Khalid Duran, was written to describe Islam for Jews.

He was originally slated to drive in the BOAC 1000 km sportscar race at Brands Hatch, but instead chose to drive in the Deutschland Trophäe, a Formula Two race, for Lotus at the Hockenheimring, primarily due to contractual obligations with Firestone.

The league was created by three corporations: General Electric, Firestone and Goodyear.

In the 1930s, National City Lines, which was a partnership of General Motors, Firestone, and Standard Oil of California purchased many electric tram networks across the country to dismantle them and replace them with GM buses.

Harvey Samuel Firestone ( 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.

Firestone was born on the Columbiana, Ohio farm built by his paternal grandfather.

In 1973, Firestone was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.

On August 17, 1993, Bruce Firestone, the Senators owner, was replaced by Rod Bryden, a former high tech tycoon, who assumed control of Terrace Corporation.

The Fontainbleau was built on the site of the Harvey Firestone estate and defined the new Gold Coast of Miami Beach.

Firestone was an ore that was extensively mined by the Atlanteans to the point of extinction.

At the beginning of the Atlantean civilisation, the Firestone was used as a prayer shrine in temples.

National City Lines, Inc. ( NCL ) was a controversial front company founded in Minnesota, United States in 1920 as a modest local transport company operating two buses which was reorganized into a holding company in 1936 with equity funding from General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum for the express purpose of acquiring local transit systems throughout the United States in what became known as the Great American Streetcar Scandal.