Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later Harvey Firestone, tire manufacturer, who is opening great rubber plantations in Liberia, told the investigators of the House of Representatives that, while the Philippines possess all the qualifications for producing rubber, no attempt to invest capital in rubber plantations can be made there until the land laws are revised and the political situation stabilized...
...second in size only to the Los Angeles.? She is 282 ft. long with capacity for 719,000 cu. ft. of gas. Four 300-h. p. Liberty motors propel her. She belongs to the U. S. Army; was built in Akron, Ohio, by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices. They want an alibi to gouge the public, so they bark at the East India rubber planter, whose empire protects him better than the Napoleonic sphinx of the White House, who, campaigning on the back of a cow, protects our farmers. [Laughter and applause...
...badly some American manufacturers have suffered by it. The Goodrich Tire Co. in 1920, before restriction, faced a $24,000,000 deficit. In 1925, after three years of restriction, it made $7,000,000 in six months...
...love my work. I never tire of playing the clown, although it is sometimes very hard. In my experience in motion pictures. I found that while the picture was being taken the work was far more trying than my work on the legitimate stage, but it doesn't last so long and when the picture is 'shot', the actor's work is done. On the whole I prefer the stage...