Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blowproof Tire. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is test-marketing a nylon cord tire within a tire that it says can be driven about 250 miles after a puncture or blowout bad enough to slash the casing. The tire has two casings-inner and outer-each with an independent air supply. If the outer casing is punctured, the built-in-spare inner casing keeps the tire inflated. Goodyear hopes its Captive-Air tire will replace the tubeless tire, which turns punctures into slow leaks and allows a safe but quick stop. Price: 40%-60% more than standard tubeless tires...
...this year was no exception. With only 50 miles behind him, Veteran Paul Russo, pushing the only V-8 engine in the pack (a supercharged Winfield that can turn up to 8,000 r.p.m.), pushed a little too hard. The wicked acceleration of his Novi Vespa Special spun a tire loose on its rim, the valve stem tore, and the resulting blowout sent the racer careening into the south wall. The Novi exploded in a great, greasy ball of flame, but Russo walked away. Behind him, four cars (out of 33 entered) swirled into a slow-motion mixup...
...while Flaherty stayed out in front, where he had installed himself on the 76th lap (of 200). Behind him, Bob Sweikert, last year's winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...
...living by his wits." At the Dome and Coupole, Montparnasse haunts of the U.S. expatriate, he talked about death and Dostoevsky and was already veering toward the sort of grandiloquent occultism that today qualifies Miller for a career as a Los Angeles swami, should he tire of Big Sur. Perles lovingly records every drink...
...quiet, precise executive, Harvey Jr., the eldest son, stepped into his father's shoes at the age of 39. As a toddler he had pulled the lever to start the first Firestone tire plant operating, and like his brothers,* he went to work climbing through the ranks after graduating from Princeton. As president during World War II, he turned to synthetics, made Firestone the first U.S. company to produce man-made GR-S rubber on a large scale...