Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adviser. In Centerburg, Ohio, George Bloomgren, adviser to a tire-rationing board, pleaded guilty to speeding en route to a meeting on tire conservation...
Because a single rifle shot blows up enough alcohol to make a stiff cocktail and more than four gallons go into making a single synthetic tire, the U.S. will use 476,000,000 gallons of commercial alcohol next year, four times any pre-war year. Most of this huge increase will be met by the liquor makers, who have an estimated capacity of 435,000,000 gallons annually. If things go as planned, the liquor industry will supply the newly developed war alcohol market (rubber and powder) and regular alcohol producers will handle the ordinary market (plastics, lacquers, chemicals, anti...
...bought it outright and a mechanic drove him home. Wee Boy did the chauffering and things went smoothly until they got a flat tire. A mechanic came down from Memphis to fix the first one. Old Man Town chopped the second one off. After that they got along for a while on the naked...
Three months ago it seemed hopeless. The swanky Berkshire Symphonic Festival, after much hemming and hawing, had called off its annual summer festival in the western Massachusetts hills. Gas rationing and tire conservation made bucolic concerts risky business. But Conductor Koussevitzky was in a dither-partly at the thought of discontinuing the Berkshire Music School, an annex of the festival, where students learn the arts of conducting, playing, composing and operatic technique. He decided to run the Music Center himself, to put on a symphonic festival without the Boston Symphony...
...picked its mountain troops from among skiers, horsemen, mule-skinners, mountain climbers, trappers, prospectors, guides. Short to medium-sized men, the Army has found, tire less quickly at high altitudes. Fear of high places (acrophobia) is not always a disqualification: many a man who has felt nervous on a stepladder quickly learns a mule's aplomb on precipice edges...