Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PROPULSION SYSTEMS : North American Aviation and General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Aerojet General Corp. are testing rocket engines to propel missiles beyond the earth's heavy stratosphere into the ionosphere. American Machine & Foundry Co. is at work on auxiliary power units for the missiles...
...Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable!" But from the London News Chronicle's Fashionewshen Jean Soward came a Soho snarl. Ticking off Marilyn as a "fat frump," Jean com mented: "The most prominent thing about her is her spare tire. Lots of us have one, but most of us dress to disguise it." Re torted uncorseted Marilyn airily: "Any woman who dresses to please women is only fooling herself...
NEXT YEAR'S AUTOS will ride on smaller tires as all Big Three plus American Motors switch from the 15-in. wheel to 14-in. Chief reason: trend to lower cars, which will see some '57 models dropped more than 5 in. from '56. New tires will be 17% wider than present models so more tire will touch road, provide more traction...
...billion federal-state road-building program, signed by the President before leaving Walter Reed Hospital. Starting this week, the U.S. motorist will begin to pay for the unprecedented 41,000-mile project with a tax of one cent more for every gallon of gas, plus a tax on tires that will run around 70? a tire for passenger cars...
...that Goodrich hired him as special analyst in 1937, gradually moved him up to vice president in charge of finance. Kelly went to the company straight from Purdue, has been with Goodrich for 31 of his 53 years. He was elevated from manufacturing vice president and head of the tire division. Goodrich spokesmen are mum on who has the edge for the chairmanship; insiders are betting on Keener, who is the third highest paid Goodrich executive (behind Collyer and Richardson...