Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your report on the rubber situation TIME, June 8, you say there is no rubberless tire in sight, and that "There is no chance that any civilian will be able to buy a new tire until 1944 -at the soonest, Positively...
...country shows that only one and a half pounds have been collected per person-a woefully small figure. But Massachusetts, on the same basis, has contributed a mere quarter pound-four ounces-for every man, woman, and child. To put it graphically, this means about one worn baby carriage tire for each person. And when one realizes that our nation will be seriously handicapped unless a million tons of scrap rubber are collected, our total returns so far look pretty ridiculous...
...belongings and find any and all pieces of scrap rubber. You'll be surprised how much turns up once you get going. A few pieces of rubber tubing from a chemistry course, a pair of sneakers worn out by four-days-a-week physical training, a used bicycle tire, a rubber seat cushion, an out-of-style rubberized raincoat-there is no end to the number of articles that will come to the surface. It's worth taking two minutes of your time to look over your room. And the Square is crowded with gas stations-you won't have...
...pursuit ship. His mount is the big bomber, which he insisted on developing in the U.S. when the minds of British airmen were on fighters. And he always takes along his lanky aide, Colonel Eugene Beebe, as copilot, for Hap Arnold's theory is that old fellows tire out and may need help at the end of a long flight. So far Colonel Beebe has found nothing to substantiate the boss's theory...
...Jesse Jones squeezed his moneybags, found he could afford to pay up to $25 a ton for scrap rubber delivered in carload lots. That makes the average old tire worth 25?, up 7? in a week...