Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blithely of stepping up synthetic rubber production, which ran around 12,000 tons last year, to 400,000 tons a year by the middle of 1943.* But he was almost alone in his optimism. Leon Henderson bluntly advised a House Committee, considering a suggestion to exempt Washington taxis from tire restrictions, that the nation's largest rubber stockpile in history (600,000 tons) would not stretch more than seven months if normal consumption were permitted. Harsh were his facts on tires: in the face of a normal demand for 35,000,000 annually, the U.S. could provide...
...Tire restrictions were being felt all over the nation last week. Milk companies abandoned daily deliveries, began to send their trucks out every other day. Department and grocery stores encouraged patrons to tote their purchases themselves. Black bourses for tires sprang up everywhere, and many an unwary motorist found himself missing a spare. "Do we have to go bankrupt?" wailed tire dealers...
...with explosives contracts to handle their regular business. > General Motors has received $769,300,000 in new war orders since Jan. 1, bringing its total war backlog to nearly $2 billions. President Charles E. Wilson said G.M. could & would handle 10% of the whole U.S. war program. > Because of tire rationing for private cars, Twin Coach Co.'s Ross Schram predicted that city transit vehicles which carried 15 billion riders last year may soon have to carry 20 billion. > The Northwest's third largest industry after lumber and fishing is tourists. Foreseeing a poor year, Oregon last week...
...tires available this month (normal monthly purchases: 4,000,000) the U.S. citizen must now beg it from his local board. He must fill out a blank as complete as an income-tax statement, proving that he is in one of the 17 essential categories (medicos, common carriers, wholesale delivery, public service, etc.), that he has a tire beyond repair or retreading, that he has no spares available, no other vehicles which he could use instead...
...tire boards will not deal with the average man, for no private motorist can buy a tire until the Far Eastern supply lines are opened. But the average man will be increasingly aware of the boards, as they take over rationing yet to come. They, or boards like them, will handle the rationing of new automobiles announced last week (see p. 61), the expected rationing of refrigerators, radios, metal furniture, many another item...