Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rival, lanky Hunter Lott, 31. (Philadelphia, where squash racquets got its start in the U.S., is still the game's top center.) Both came through the prelims easily, clashed in the finals. Lott won the first game, but then began to tire. Charlie Brinton still had his old mixture of low killers and tantalizing drop shots-and five years on Lott. The winner: Brinton...
...began to think in terms of shortages and higher prices to ease the shortages. The higher prices are still forestalled by ceilings-but last week some Midwestern farmers were asking and getting such bonuses for a carload of grain as six pairs of nylon stockings, a heavy-duty truck tire or a fine bird...
...Wanted at Home. Domestic consumption of cotton has been dropping steadily for three years. Textile mills, short of manpower, have used less. And synthetics, which have been getting steadily cheaper and better, have taken over cotton markets. Example: in 1935, no rayon was used in U.S. tire fabrics; last year, tire makers used the equivalent of about half a million bales of cotton. (Rayon is now actually cheaper than cotton when wastage in manufacture is counted...
...basis of Cake's report, the outlook for tire makers was brighter than they had expected. The U.S. will probably get 400,000 tons of the Far East's 1946 production, which will be blended with synthetic to stretch the supply. Estimated passenger tire production next year...
Overdrawn. Tire rationing may end Jan.1. But this will not mean tires for everybody. By the end of September, rationing boards had issued 780,000 more certificates than there were tires available...