Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles Kaiser used dime-store shoe soles as recaps, got 1,200 miles from them (see cut). The Army had already begun shifting from rubber tank treads to steel treads, which are not as good, but replaceable. Drastic steps were necessary, and would certainly be invoked-such as commandeering tire stockpiles, the requisition of civilian cars, a further abandonment of duplicating bus lines...
...constant weight on the front wheels makes a smooth ride, he said, while the absence of a hood would bring the road too close to the driver, tire his eyes. "If the air-cooled engine is generally adopted," said cautious Bob Gregorie, "It will be compact and could be placed anywhere...
...told Rubber Coordinator Arthur B. Newhall, a former Goodrich official, that he had put together natural gas, wood pulp, coal, lamp black and other ingredients into a rubber-substance which had already given 10,000 miles of service as a tire retread. He had 50 pounds of it in his car, right outside the building. But his pilot plant back home, worse luck, had just been smashed by robbers and couldn't be inspected by government experts just then. For Coordinator Newhall the amateur rubber-makers pose a problem: among many crackpot processes, is there one he dare...
...Enjoying Two Dinners, or Invention of the Stomach Pump, which shows a doctor perched on a chair, fountaining the bilge from an overstuffed gourmand with a four-ft. contraption resembling a tire pump. Others wait their turn. Cries one: "Be quick Dr. there is another glorious Dinner...
Without doubt the British have born the brunt of the whispering campaign. Almost every frustration which the American have undergone in the last month has been laid at their door. For example, the sugar shortage, tire and gas rationing, and the shortage of tankers for oil transport were all attributed to the British. Every military reverse has similarity been alleged the result of British incompetency or worse. They seem to qualify as the number one scapegoat...