Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt last week let a wishful cat out of a hypothetical bag. Said the President casually, in answer to a question at his press conference: he was not excited about tires; things would work out; already under study were two or three tire substitutes which did not require rubber; if they would just permit a man to drive 30 miles an hour, he could get to work and back...
...words were a bombshell of hope. From coast to coast newspapers broke out the big type: HOPE HELD FOR CIVILIAN TIRES SOON; PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC OVER TIRES ; RUBBERLESS TIRE NEAR, SAYS F.D.R.; PRESIDENT TAKES ISSUE WITH OWN WAR-AGENCY HEADS ON RUBBER CRISIS...
This belief was dead wrong. Nobody has yet made a decent tire without rubber. The United Nations are so desperate for rubber that gasoline rationing will soon be extended everywhere in the U.S., just to keep the present tires from wearing out. Even the treasure trove of scrap rubber which has been uncovered but uncollected in the U.S. is entirely needed for war uses. There is no chance that any civilian will be able to buy a new tire until 1944-at the soonest. Positively...
Sales of new cars, used cars and jalopies all hit bottom again last week. All over the U.S. the story was the same: gas rationing and the tire shortage have made cars a drug on the market. Only active buyers are the steelmakers; last month they swarmed through junkyards, snapped up 400,000 old cars at prices ranging from...
...maximize loads per truck in both directions. The number of trips on certain routes will be cut. By such cooperation, and with the greatest attention to maintenance, highway operators grimly aim to get a million miles of life out of each truck, 125,000 miles (with recapping) from each tire. But none of them can see beyond...