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All kinds of famous folks were born during the month of December. This week, Tidbits brings you a few more details about these well-known people, past and present. • Harvey Firestone was 31 years old in 1899 when he founded the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, dealing in carriage tires. Originally he sold tires manufactured by others, but his concerns with quality led him to begin manufacturing them himself. Recognizing that the horseless carriage was the wave of the future, Firestone contacted Henry Ford, and in 1906, sold 2,000 sets of tires to the Ford Motor Company, contributing to Firestone’s first year of sales over $1 million. Their annual sales today top $4 billion. • Growing up with six sisters as a child of Russian Jewish immigrants in New York, Issur Danielovitch earned the money to buy milk and bread by peddling snacks to mill workers. His next job was delivering newspapers, and he went on to 40 more jobs before finally settling into his permanent career as an actor. After a name change to Kirk Douglas, he played roles ranging from Doc Holliday to Spartacus to General Patton to Vincent Van Gogh.

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