Word: sawdusted
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...inventors are Clarence and Lonnie Gapen, who run a paint & wallpaper business in Morgantown, W. Va. They worked on their tire formula for six years, recently perfected it with the help of the Andy Brothers Tire Shop in Washington. The abrasive material (a sawdust mixture) is mixed with recapping camelback (uncured rubber compound) under pressure, then applied to a tire by the usual molding process. The Gapen brothers claim that their tires will outlast ordinary ones. They have driven some of their recaps 9,500 miles...
...thing handsome fundamentalist Chaplain Gatlin felt he had a right to do was to win sailors to Christ. In eight months, he converted 31 men. But the Navy found the Kentucky-born chaplain's sawdust-trail activities "embarrassing and disquieting," asked him to resign. When he stood his ground and refused, he was put on the inactive list (TIME, July...
...champion erh-lü-tze. His wife & children left him for shame. Then reform seized him. Now he had ample livestock, 21 acres under cultivation. His family was home again. His village had elected him the local "hero of labor." Overwhelmed, the 63 erh-lü-tze hit the sawdust trail...
...Rome last week able New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews somehow procured (he would not say where) and published Filippelli's 20-year-old photostat. The confession had been paraphrased in part in George Seldes' Sawdust Caesar. Matthews reported the full text...
While other circuses have emphasized the virtues of the canvas tent and sawdust ring of late, the most famous of them all has retained the sophisticated elements of the gilded spectacle that draws the crowds of the big Eastern cities...