Word: tire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which closed all of Chrysler's automobile plants in the Detroit area, throwing 55,000 employes out of work. Shut, too, by U.A.W. sit-downs were three Hudson plants employing 10,000 men. In Akron last week a walkout by C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers closed Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (10,000 employes). In Manhattan, General Electric's New Dealing President Gerard Swope agreed to a conference with C.I.O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, commencing next week. In Boston, C.I.O. organizers announced formation of a new United Shoe Workers union, with 20,000 charter members. Abandoning...
...obviously unfitted to bring up a nervous child. Leni had to leave. Night before she was to go, the War broke out. The little doctor tried to rush Leni to a train to get her back to Germany; the bicycle on which both were riding got a flat tire; they missed the train and spent an innocent night in the fields. When they got to London they were arrested. Unfortunately for them, that same night Mrs. Newcome had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. It was an open-&-shut case. Before they were both hanged for Mrs. Newcome...
...game started off at a fast clip and not until the last half of the third period did the players tire perceptively. Feeling ran high from the start, with many penalties being called on both sides. The rugged body checks of Francis and Roosevelt were mainly responsible for this...
...microscopes and test tubes. When it had to decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from the different knives and from the screen in a burner and compared the spectra they gave off. It has plastic material for impressions of footprints and tire treads so nice that a plaster cast of a hand can be made to give accurate and serviceable fingerprints...
Goodrich has invented a simple method of filling the tire with water from an ordinary garden hose. Water under normal faucet pressure suffices, is pumped in until the level reaches the valve. Then air inflation is added as usual. In winter, a calcium chloride solution prevents freezing. During operation over bumps, the water remains at the bottom of the tire, provides normal cushioning without bouncing...