Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football game a certain pleasure may be derived from calling the plays beforehand, but in "The Homestretch," which happens to be about horse-racing, the average spectator will soon tire of matching wits with a plodding script-writer. Maureen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde join and separate as mechanically as two participants in a Virginia reel, with the much-abused backdrop of horse races and a stately Marlyland homestead. But there is nothing positively unpleasant about the picture: blushing technicolor is made the most of, especially in the newsreel shots of the English coronation, and the photography of the races...
...some, the cream on the boom was curdling. Eversharp Inc., which turned in a dazzling $1,074,274 last year in its second quarter, was down to $550,575. The rubber industry also had begun to feel the pinch of overproduction (TIME, June 23). Example: General Tire & Rubber Co.'s six months' earnings of $2,650,912 were down from last year...
...also a new, bright-colored, strident biocomedy about the late Miss White, starring Betty Hutton. Betty starts as a sweatshop girl, moves on to become a dumb theatrical trouper, bursts into bloom as the queen of silent serials, and fades off into a Paris nightclub when movie audiences tire of her innocent melodramatics. On the way up she falls in love with an arrogant stage actor (John Lund) who resents her screen success; in the last scene, after a crippling fall, it is implied that she sacrifices her thin chances for life rather than stand him up on a date...
...rubber industry, it was almost like the bad old times. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., U.S. Rubber Co. and Firestone cut their tire prices about 10% last week to meet a price cut by B. F. Goodrich Co. This brought the cost of a 6.00 x 16, the most popular tire size, down to $14.40, slightly under the 1941 price. To make things worse for tiremen, independent dealers slashed their prices as low as $11.38 by trimming their normal profit of 25 to 30% down to 10% or less. The reason was simple: there were just too many tires...
...pits were too busy to look up for more than an instant. Bill Holland, who had taken the lead (earning $100 in prize money for each lap he led) rolled in to the pit for his first stop. It took 14 seconds to change a weakening tire; nitrogen bottles blew fuel from drums into the tank; Holland patted his crash helmet, pulled down his goggles and sped off. The merry-go-round went on. With only 100 miles to go, Lou Moore's two drivers were running...