Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BIGGEST IRON PIPEMAKER, Pittsburgh's A. M. Byers Co. (nine-month net sales: $23 million), will be taken over by Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., fifth biggest U.S. rubber company. In stock swap after long negotiations, General Tire has acquired about 75% of Byers' stock, will expand production and push it into General's booming plastics business...
Time to Retire. In Bingham, Utah, workers were threatened with "some disciplinary action" after they lost control of a 1,800-lb. road-grader tire they were rolling to amuse themselves during lunch hour, saw it careen down a mile-deep copper mine and vanish into a roadway, where it rolled to a town three-quarters of a mile away, bounced 30 ft. in the air, ripped open the second floor of a house...
will put on sale a standard-size tubeless tire with two sets of treads, separated by a center groove. Each tread has separate contact with the road, thus providing better traction and reducing wear...
...Twin Tire. General Tire & Rubber...
Civil Defense. In East Los Angeles, after alarmed residents reported an explosion, six patrol cars, a detective car, an ambulance and six fire engines raced to the blast area, found Motorist Anthony Gams standing beside his 1947 Chrysler inspecting a blown-out tire...