Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...payments boosted the stock to $115 on the New York Stock Exchange. Holding 52,799 shares of Chain common, as well as 325 shares of its preferred, President Walter B. Lashar was well pleased with the dividend declaration. Most famed product of American Chain is the Weed nonskid automobile tire chain. Weeds, however, were not invented by Mr. Lashar but by Hiram Weed of Canastota, N. Y. In the early 1900's Mr. Weed bought his chain from a small chain company, of which Mr. Lashar was sales manager. In 1915 Mr. Lashar, backed by William T. Morris...
Said Dr. James W. Schade, director of Goodrich research: "The cost per mile of automobile tires is today one-tenth what it was before the scientists tackled the job of improving the rubber. Formerly the manufacturer was taking a chance in guaranteeing 3,000 miles per tire. Today the customer is dissatisfied if he does not get more than 15,000 miles. Meantime the weight has been reduced...
...predicting that stock prices will become inflated. I recognize however, that the stockmarket provides an inviting field. . . . Here we can have inflation in an insidiously pleasant form, under the guise of visible, day-by-day 'profits.' . . . Like a thin spot in a tire casing, the stock-market might conceivably become inflated the more, because of the inflexibility of other parts of the structure to which inflationary pressure is applied...
...Detroit daily, his eyes failed him, and he sadly set up a shipping office in Duluth. Today he owns the Tomlinson fleet of 15 Great Lakes steamers, two farms where he raises horses, 9,000 volumes of Americana, is board chairman of American Shipbuilding, a director of Goodyear Tire & Rubber and vice president of the Cleveland Baseball Club (Indians). He also sits on the boards of 16 Van Sweringen railroads, though he was President Wilson's Wartime Director of Inland Waterways...
...made a loud pop. . . . I felt a jar on the front of the car. . . . I saw bits of rubber fly up from the left front tire. The salt flying up into my face had by now almost stopped vision through my goggles. I swerved out of line. I snapped the 'old lady' back quickly and there wasn't much trouble in the run to the stop...