Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both parties to the argument agree that Thiokol, the new retread material, can do a lot of retreading, can substantially ease the civilian tire shortage...
There were also some war casualties: New England's famed Berkshire Festival abandoned because of gas rationing, rubber shortage); summer opera at Colorado's ghost town, Central City (abandoned Because of tire and bus shortages); the Portland (Ore.) Midsummer Night concerts (Army regulations restrict the size of audiences...
...cheap. Retreads would cost an estimated $6 to $8 per tire-i.e., no more than retreading with the conventional "camelback," which is no longer available for civilian tires...
...applied by anybody, by brushing it on a worn tire, waiting until the first coat dries, brushing on some more (though it is best applied mechanically...
...nobody thought of Thiokol as a retread material until Kettering and the Society of Automotive Engineers last April set out to explore every possible form of rubber synthetic and substitute. They pried into the deepest competitive secrets of U.S. rubber processors without finding a quick, cheap answer to the tire problem. Then they called in the U.S. chemical manufacturers, again examined every possibility. Only one appeared good: Thiokol. To test its usefulness, they crowded a year's research into the last two months...