Word: tires
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lackey" to Washington. Said one government official: "We cannot persuade our people that China is a greater danger in the world than Russia- especially after the events in Hungary. We just cannot explain to British businessmen any longer why they can sell jeeps or tractors or even a tire factory to the Russians but not to the Chinese...
...BREAKDOWN INSURANCE will be sold for 10? by garages that hold exclusive rights to aid motorists on 427-mile New York State Thruway. Good for one day, policy entitles driver to free emergency services costing up to $25 in cases of stalling, tire trouble...
...were whizzing up as fast as old Wan-Hu. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., a leader in rocket fuels, shot up 6| points in three days to a new high of 54. Reaction Motors, 50% owned by Olin, has nearly doubled in value in the past year; so has General Tire & Rubber Co., which owns 95% of another rocket enginemaker, Aerojet General Corp. Thiokol Chemical Corp. has trebled in value in a little over a year, hit $70.50 a share last week before backing...
Titan & Atlas. So far, most of the production-and most of the profit-has gone to two giants in the field: General Tire's Aerojet subsidiary and North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division, both of which got in on the ground floor and today account for almost 75% of all the rocket-engine business. Founded in 1942 by Theodore von Karman, who now acts as a consultant, and a group of scientists at California Institute of Technology, Aerojet plodded along until 1945 when General Tire bought up 50% of its stock for a bargain $75,000, later increased...
Fons made no error. He was whipping along at more than 90 m.p.h. when a tire blew. The Ferrari flattened a milestone, caromed off a telephone pole and somersaulted into the thick crowd that lined the curb. Alfonso de Portago could do nothing to save himself, or his co-driver, who was cut in half, or the 15 spectators (including four children) who were killed with him in the deadly Mille Miglia...