Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alarum. In Brooklyn, three police cars rushed through the streets on a tip that a woman was "yelling for help," found a perspiring man changing an auto tire-with his voluble wife trumpeting advice...
...Many Tires. The three biggest U.S. mail-order houses (Sears, Roebuck & Co., Montgomery Ward & Co. Inc., Spiegel, Inc.) cut tire prices as much as 12%. But tires were not the only things catching up with demand in the rubber business. Since rubber was decontrolled on April 1, the price of natural rubber has dropped more than 5? a pound to 18½?. Rubber for delivery in September (futures) dropped to around 16?, less than the 1939 price. Caught by the drop was the RFC, which bought & sold all U.S. rubber until April 1. It owns 110,000 tons of salable...
Born in Boston, Stanton Griffis was a prizewinning orator at Cornell. He raised apples for a while in Oregon but gave that up for Wall Street, where he became a banker, a promoter and a tycoon. In 1920 he moved in on Lee Tire & Rubber Co. In 1933, with Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium, he acquired control of Madison Square Garden. He helped pull Paramount Pictures out of a $100 million hole, along the way picked up Brentano's book stores...
...Denver, a prospective buyer was offered prompt delivery of either a Kaiser or Frazer in a choice of four colors, along with a spare tire, a box of tools, a tankful of gas, and a radiator full of anti-freeze thrown in. In Seattle, a buyer could walk into a showroom and take his pick of 16 cars. In Dallas, salesmen were offering delivery in five hours; the delay was only for servicing, registration, etc. And in Los Angeles, where plans for a K-F assembly line have been shelved, one dealer anxiously asked an impatient customer: "Well, would half...
...mostly freshmen, small and inexperienced. The star of the team is 5 ft.11 in. Center Jack Allen, a superb dribbler and a deadly shot from just beyond the foul circle. In most of the other positions, Keaney keeps shuttling substitutes in & out with instructions to run until they tire, then signal for relief. By this simple method, which has proved effective in Keaney's 27 years at R.I. State, his fast little men recently trampled powerful St. John's in New York's Madison Square Garden...