Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average U.S. citizen said the hell with it and went for a long, tire-consuming joyride last week, it was small wonder. As the week wore on, he was subjected to more confusion than ever about the rubber shortage. Some moderately good news of ersatz tire prospects was perverted into a miracle like the loaves and fishes...
...tire industry told WPB that with only 4,500 tons of crude (less than 1% of the remaining U.S. stockpile) and 234,000 tons of reclaim (about one-third of U.S. two-year capacity) it can recap enough old tires, make enough new ones of reclaimed rubber to meet the irreducible minimum-replacement demand to keep all present cars on the road. But the press underplayed the industry's quid pro quo for the miracle: To achieve it, said the tiremen, every car, truck and bus in the U.S. will have to cut its usual mileage an average...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York gave up tennis for the duration, added his tennis shoes to the family's scrap-rubber contribution. Also surrendered: the gubernatorial mansion's front door mat, a tire, a length of hose, galoshes, Mrs. Lehman's rain cape...
WASHINGTON--With the flat statement that the national welfare must come first, President Roosevelt said today he may have to requisition every automobile tire in the United States if world conditions grow worse...
...Army and the Navy between them will still have 92,500 combat planes. Army schools will graduate something less than 30,000 pilots this year, must step up their training pace next year. The rub: in the tension of long flights and in the electric strain of combat, pilots tire. Flight surgeons ground them, make them rest. But planes don't get tired. Back from a mission, refueled, rearmed, a plane is ready to fly again. Consequently, every plane needs one or more replacement crews...