Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., said it...

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., said it will report first-quarter earnings from continuing operations of more than $71.3 million, including a $110.8-million charge from the writedown of oil and gas reserves. A year earlier Goodyear posted a $60-million loss . . . World Airways said it has laid off an additional 103 employees in its contract maintenance operation at Oakland, pushing the total number of layoffs since early March to 377 . . . Hughes Tool Co. reports that the number of working oil and gas rigs in the United States dropped for the first time in four weeks to a total of 749, down from last week’s total of 752.