Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinclair plan is but a symptom of a major movement in the industry: to sell more oil, more cheaply. Master service stations of various types are already erected or projected by Standard Oil of Ohio, Beacon Oil Co., Pierce Petroleum Co., even by Firestone Tire Co. (TIME, Aug. 19). Shell Union Oil Co. recently obtained $40,000,000 by new financing to enlarge its service station outlets...
...Detroit. The world's first all-metal dirigible, built stubbier than a Zeppelin, was successfully tried out for the first time. Built experimentally for the Navy by Aircraft Development Co. (subsidiary of Detroit Aircraft Corp.) after designs of Ralph Hazlett Upson, onetime Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. sausage balloon and blimp designer, the all-metal dirigible has a skin of aleled (duralumin core with surface coating of pure aluminum...
Again, Tycoon Sirs: Had hoped you would tire of it-but no. I'll forgive you anything you have done-or anything you may do, if you'll abandon that alien "tycoon" thing. Even TIME cannot pluck it from its comic opera setting in the mind of the English speaking world, and give it adequacy or dignity, by all too frequent use. Is good old United States so poverty stricken that you must lug this in? It grates-ugh! H. VAN ANTWERP Farmers...
Today the ordinary country filling station may sell $300 or $400 of tires in a year, but at least one tire company-Firestone-foresees that in the future many if not most tires will be sold by chain tire stores, each part of a master service station in whose several departments specialized brake service, washing and greasing, battery service, will be combined with a filling station and a store for selling electrical equipment...
While the "49ers" were going around his plant, Inventor Edison chewed a cigar and consented to answer a questionnaire that newsmen had presented to him. To the question, "What do you think of the future of the talkies?" his answer was emphatic: "Without great improvements people will tire of them. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in silent pictures." Then, to another query, he gave ambition, imagination, and the will to work as the key to success...