Alliance Rubber Purchasing and Contract Director Bryan Smith speaks at a Hot Springs National Park Rotary Club meeting while an image of his Houston Astros baseball card is displayed on a screen behind him at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hot Springs. (The Sentinel-Record/Lance Brownfield)
More than 100 years after William H. Spencer cut rubber inner tubes into thin bands for local paperboys to bind newspapers together in Alliance, Ohio, Alliance Rubber has grown to become the largest rubber band manufacturer in the world, the company's purchasing and contract director told Hot Springs National Park...
