Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back during the dusty, tire-patching era of the Pope-Hartford and the Apperson Jackrabbit, the average U.S. citizen seldom got behind an automobile wheel without secretly feeling a little like a man climbing aboard a racing camel or a Mallet locomotive. In the years since, he has gone right on believing that only his innate coolness, intelligence and mechanical aptitude have enabled him to remain the master of the gas buggy. But last week Northwestern University's Traffic Institute had news...
...Colored Tires. In New York, the Lefferts Color-Wall Tire Service began processing tire sidewalls to match the color of the car. By vulcanizing a thin strip of rubber to tire sidewalls, the company turns out such hues as robin's-egg blue or Hollywood yellow. Price: $5 per tire...
...after ten rounds and was lugged off to the dressing room suffering from heat prostration. Robinson, in one of his peak performances, was doing all the work while the heavier (by 15½ lbs.) Maxim was content to bide his time, using his superior weight in the clinches to tire out the challenger. The strategy, such as it was, began to pay off. In Round 13, Sugar Ray, his eyes glazing and his legs rubbery, threw a prodigious right. It missed the target by a yard and Robinson sprawled on the canvas. While Maxim eyed him incredulously, the bell rang...
...slung racers. Some 175,000 craning fans, who brought tents and bedrolls for their 24-hour vigil, were on hand for the big show. For hour after hour, roaring wide-open on the straightaways, the cars spun around the 8.6-mile oval course, stopping occasionally for fuel or tire changes. Nighttime mist hampered visibility, but the asphalt road, lightly sanded to prevent slipping in wet weather, never became treacherous...
...tire change cost Vukovich the lead, to Ruttman, in the 135th lap; 11 laps later, for the same reason, Ruttman lost it back to Vukovich. And so it went, in a nip & tuck race. With only 50 miles to go, Vukovich, setting new speed records all along the line, had a fairly substantial (31 seconds) lead, but he could see from information flagged from his pit that Ruttman was gaining...