Word: tires
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seattle, Count George Hay du Barry invented a red and white signal flag for distressed motorists. On one side appears the legend STALLED! SEND TIRE MAN; on the other SEND MECHANIC, PLEASE! HAVE A HEART!! For no other wayside dilemma has: Count du Barry prepared flags...
...greatest lay patron of chemistry in the United States" (see p. 48). Chemistry Patron Garvan was also among those who have given a scholarship fund ($1,000 annually) to help the Johns Hopkins plan. The scholarships are to be established in every State. Other contributors so far include: Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (Ohio), Bill Raskob Memorial Foundation (Delaware),* General Motors Corp. (Michigan), Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. (West Virginia). The Edison "Genius Hunt" consists in finding in each State the high school student who has most distinguished himself in scientific subjects during the present school year. In August, Mr. Edison will...
...experimental plane had been flown around here for several months. The ship that Captain Bruce was in was out of regular production, fully licensed by the Department of Commerce. . . . Aviation needs all the help a publication like TIME can give it. C. T. HUTCHINS Manager, Advertising Department The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Inc. Akron, Ohio. I find, on making a further check, that the regular Department of Commerce license has not been received but is expected shortly. The ship has met all the requirements of the Department of Commerce. The local Department of Commerce representative checked over this, flew...
...Royal cars have a duplicate speedometer, visible to the Royal eye. All are washed, polished, greased every night. Fortnightly a representative of Dunlap Rubber Co. (slogan: Dunlap Tires as British as the Flag!) journeys to wherever in Great Britain the Royal cars may be and thoroughly tests the rubber of each tire, scanning minutely for nails, flints, stone-bruises. Thus the undignified spectacle of Majesty waiting for a burst tire to be changed is seldom or never presented to English eyes...
Pleased last week were hot-dog men, peanut men, pop men, billboard men. Pleased also were auto men and tire men. Source of their pleasure was a prediction made by Builder Fred T. Ley ("No job too large, no job too small") head of Fred T. Ley & Co., Inc., holding company for Ley construction and real estate operations...