Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frantically coiled himself up, the spinning tire struck him, laying bare one of his shoulder blades. Bleeding, scorched by flame and chilled by the prop wash, Bas Wie mercifully lost consciousness. For three hours his body stayed so firmly wedged within the struts that it did not fall out even when the big wheel went down again. When the crew found him "just hanging there," Bas Wie seemed close to death...
...most active stock underwriter, was doing business in New York, Colombia and Venezuela. All told, Deltec has sold stock to some 50,000 Brazilians, 80% of whom, Dauphinot estimates, had never owned stock before. The buyers put their money into such Brazilian subsidiaries as Squibb, Dunlop, Willys, General Tire, Lone Star Cement, I.T.&T. and Brazilian department-store, telephone, textile, cement and steel companies. Dauphinot's salesmen also sell investment trust shares for as little as 100 cruzeiros...
...hives, extinguish fires, bandage wounds and deodorize homes, pets or people. Said a Manhattan merchandising expert: "People will buy anything in those fascinating pushbutton cans-even air." Aerosol men agreed. Recently Liquid Glaze, Inc. brought out an aerosol can of compressed gas called Spair, which can inflate a flat tire to 22 Ibs. pressure in six seconds...
...runways. Von Kàrmàn's solution was the famed JATO rocket-booster unit. The only trouble was that the company lacked the capital and the production know-how to follow through on its big military contracts. For those it turned to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., which poured $4,000,000 into the tiny, brainy company (in return for 50% stock ownership) and installed Dan Kimball, then serving as General Tire's director of Government operations, as boss in 1945. In short order Aerojet was making good on its contracts, at one point...
Space & Atoms. What saved the company in the postwar planemaker's famine was the same thing that made it grow in the first place: new ideas, plus topflight research into new fields. Gradually extending its contract to 87% ownership, General Tire gave Kimball the funds he needed to push Aerojet into liquid engines for some of the first U.S. military rockets: Douglas' early Nike, the Lark and Loon for the Navy. Aerojet branched out to work on underwater rocket engines, set up separate departments to pursue both liquid-and solid-fuel engines...