Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable pitching roster, the Old Perfesser can pick such aces as Southpaws Whitey Ford and Bobby Shantz and his reformed playboy. Righthander Don ("Perfect Game") Larsen; if they tire, as a reliever he has Fireballer Ryne Duren. who has saved nine ball games, struck out 40 of the 80 men he has faced. And every four days, he can send out the burly (6 ft. 2 in., 218 lbs.) insurance agent who is currently the best pitcher in the majors: Robert Lee Turley...
...ever-increasing number of motorists are becoming thoroughly fed up with the overweighted, undersprung, swerving, swaying, tire-screeching, chrome-splashed, trinket-laden, gas-eating monsters that Detroit has been forcing upon the American public...
...restoration boom. New Jersey's Scandinavia Belting Co. still makes transmission linings for the Ford Model A and Model T. In the East, at least three major wheelwrights make wheels for the oldsters. Western Auto Supply. Sears. Roebuck and Montgomery Ward market parts for the Model T. Firestone Tire & Rubber sells several thousand antique tires a year, priced up to $67.55 each (for the Stanley Steamer and Stutz...
...CHEVIES may have nylon tires as standard equipment. In secret test, G.M. has put nylon tires on 40,000 new Chevies this year, later will check owners to see how they perform. If they outwear the present rayon tires, Chevy plans switch to nylon, which would be heavy blow to rayon makers, who sell 36% of total output to tire industry...
...score remained 7 to 2 throughout the fourth quarter, as the Big Red's speedy midfielders seemed to tire. A Cornell manager remarked that Harvard was the only team that had worn out Cornell during the fourth period, including the fine southern squads the Big Red has faced...