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THE -OREGON SUNDAY; JOURNAL, PORT LAND. SUNDAY MORNING, ; JUNE 1, 1919.
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During the war, with our tire produc
tion curtailed and thousands of custom
ers' orders standing unfilled on our
dealers' books, we found encouragement
in thinking of the coming time when
supply would equal demand
With the armistice we set about the
immediate readjustftient of our factories,
and laid down for them a tire produc
tion schedule by far the heaviest they
had ever known
That schedule is now in being by dint
of great Tailor we have even surpassed
it last week's output, for example,
averaged the enormous figure of 24336
finished tires per day K
Yet notwithstanding our most careful
preparations, made in anticipation of an
unprecedented business, our passenger
car tire volume is still insufficient fully
to meet all existing demands
There is for us a considerable element of
embarrassment in so greats and growing
a preference on the part of the public
iois Goodyear Tires, and in cfur own
failure properly to satisfy this preference
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In one sense we feel it to be a reproach
to our own estimate of Goodyear Tires'
popularity, which, although we knew it
to be great, has now exceeded anything
we had imagined !
There is the regret on Qur part, too, at
our inability to serve immediately all
the people who look to us for service,
sirice we do appreciate their friendship
and their custom
But so far; it has been not humanly pos
sible for -us to produce tires! of standard
Goodyear quality in the volume all these
people demand
There are probably many Goodyear
Service Station Dealers that; have full
stocks of Goodyear Tires; on the con
trary there are many others whose
stocks are very low
Should you encounter one of the latter
and e unable to have your wants filled
there, we ask you to absolve that dealer
of any fault in the matter whatsoever
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The fault, if there is a fault, is entirely
our own, in our temporary inability to
build enough Goodyear Tirs to jsatisfy
public needs
Night and day we are pushing the
Goodyear factories to remedy this con
dition, in an endeavor to make Good
year Tires as easy to get as they are
worth while to use
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