Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other independents fumbled around with their styling and interiors; technical improvements were either minor or non-existent. Kaiser for example changed hood ornaments and tacked a chrome-plated tire case on the rear. Studebaker dropped its needle-nose, and Nash swapped its bathtub body for one designd by Italy's Pinin Farina that couldn't help being an improvement...
...select fraternity of corporations with gross sales of more than $1 billion, some new members were admitted last week. Latest additions, on the basis of 1951 tabs: International Harvester, Shell Oil, Goodyear Tire & Rubber (first rubber company to make the grade), Standard Oil of California, National Dairy, Republic Steel. Total membership...
...says, "before I ran into a young man who could answer straightaway, just like that, and with figures to support his answers." The young man was 24-year-old Theodore Houser, a merchandise controller; Wood made him his assistant. As a team, Wood and Houser concentrated on the tire division. In five years, sales increased tenfold, to twice as many tires as Sears, their archcompetitor...
...relax. He had removed part of the stomach of the Rev. James Cummings, 35, a Chicago priest, because of intractable ulcers. Everything had gone smoothly. But as Dr. Fowler was putting the last stitches in the patient's abdomen, there came a bang like that of a bursting tire, and a puff of smoke spewed out of the anesthesia machine. The explosion ripped open the anesthesia bag, and blew out the glass covers on the machine's flutter valves...
...away at his house with a shotgun. The next night, a bullet zinged through a window of Dentist W. A. Fingal's house. About the same time, a dynamite bomb exploded in Negro Physician Urbane F. Bass's backyard. Another bomb was tossed in front of the tire shop belonging to Vice President Henry Dyson of the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P...