Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vincent ("Vinnie") Richards, 50, onetime wonder boy of tennis who teamed up with Bill Tilden to win the national doubles championship at the age of 15 and later won the national professional singles championship four times, was named vice president of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. Richards joined Dunlop in 1930, when the company first entered the tennis-equipment field...
...other songs are not quite up to this level, most are enjoyable none-the-less. "Ad Man Out" starts quickly with "All That Glitters," a number embellished with the walking pack of cigarettes, the Firestone child with tire, etc. And the pace is generally kept throughout, with the possible exception of an Arthur Godfrey take-off. Here, however, the Pudding cannot be blamed if the Yale Bank stole a march...
...multiplied near Tehuantepec. A Ford overturned on a curve, and six spectators who had rushed to help its occupants were killed by a second Ford, which came whipping around the blind turn. A bit later, near by, an Italian co-driver died under his Ferrari after it blew a tire and overturned. The survivors tore onward, and at first lap's end a record average speed of 94.86 m.p.h. was set by one of Italy's top drivers, Felice Bonetto, in a 245-h.p. Lancia. Other Italian-driven Lancias snorted in second and third...
...Tire Talons. For better traction, faster starts and safer stops on icy roads, B. F. Goodrich Co. brought out a truck tire with 5,000 tiny steel claws embedded in the tread. The steel will last almost the life of the tread, says Goodrich, and will result in only negligible road damage. Price: about 10% above regular truck tires...
Sturdy Stopper. Virginia's Highway Commission has bought 10,000 plastic traffic signs from General Tire & Rubber Co. for use on its roads. Lighter and tougher than steel, yet only one-eighth to one-tenth inch thick, the plastic signs withstand the attacks of man and nature better than metal ones...