1932

RJF acquires the plants and business of the rubber division of the Victor Products Co. Inc. and the trade names and business of the former O'Sullivan Rubber Co., Inc.

RJF becomes president of O'Sullivan Rubber Co. He would expand O'Sullivan's revenues six fold. Net sales rose from $687,000 in 1932 to 3.9 million in 1949,the last year of RJF's participation in the company as either president or Chairman of the Board. (He became chairman of the board in 1942.)

The company manufactured rubber composition heels and soles and other composition rubber products, which are distributed to the shoe factory and shoe repair trades nationwide.

During the depression, RJ hires from within.

"You get what you pay for.