Word: retreader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, the fans cheer him even when he gets knocked out of the box. His 1948 record: seven wins, three defeats. For a retread, sensitive William Symmes Voiselle was giving serviceable mileage...
...Razzberries. At 29, Big Bill Voiselle was strictly a retread. He blew out three years ago when he was with the New York Giants. One fat pitch (clouted for a home run with the count two balls and no strikes) did it. Giants' Manager Mel Ott bawled him out in front of the whole team and fined him $500. Bill began to brood. "Yuh don't feel like pitching when a fine's hanging over your head," he said. The fans jeered. Deafness and all, says Bill, "When 30,000 razzberries pour down on you, you hear...
...ready handling. He helped Outfielder Gene Hermanski renew his self-confidence, and had him fielding better, hitting 83 percentage points higher than last year. When Pitcher Hank Behrman was sold to Pittsburgh and flopped, Manager Burt was the first to say, "We can use him"- and made a serviceable retread...
...others). But motor transport is another story, because of the rubber shortage. For civilians, who have already cut their driving on the rationed East Coast by 55-65%. Dow Chemical's Thiokol (TIME, June 29) is the great white hope, with serious talk of enough by fall to retread 1,000,000 tires a month (out of 150,000,000 in use). Nonetheless, people who ought to know (like the Petroleum Industry War Council) were still talking last week of a reduction of cars in use-for lack of rubber-from...
...nobody thought of Thiokol as a retread material until Kettering and the Society of Automotive Engineers last April set out to explore every possible form of rubber synthetic and substitute. They pried into the deepest competitive secrets of U.S. rubber processors without finding a quick, cheap answer to the tire problem. Then they called in the U.S. chemical manufacturers, again examined every possibility. Only one appeared good: Thiokol. To test its usefulness, they crowded a year's research into the last two months...