Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fred Wilt, 30, a Manhattan FBI man in working hours, announced his strategy for the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile in advance: to set a fast pace in order to tire Don Gehrmann as much as possible, take the edge off Gehrmann's famous last-lap sprinting...
Miscellaneous Orders (e.g., transmissions, tank track, trailers, etc.): Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., $23.5 million; G.M.'s Allison Division, $26 million; Timken-Detroit Axle Co., $29 million; Fruehauf Trailer Co., $34 million; G.M.'s Chevrolet, $6 million; American Steel Foundries, $15.8 million; Continental Motors Corp., $95 million...
Crude rubber henceforth may be imported only by the Government, which will do all the buying & selling in an attempt to stabilize the price, which soared from 18? a lb. a year ago to a high of 85½? on Nov. 8. This will not bring on tire rationing, said the National Production Authority, because just as much crude rubber will be imported as before...
...scene one day in August 1942. The place was a desolate corner of Maestro Leopold Stokowski's rambling foothill estate, high above Margaret's home town of Carpinteria on the Southern California coast. The only clues were a couple of big footprints and a tire track -and despite Undersheriff Ross's warnings, Patrolman Kirkes managed to trample all over them...
...time at all, the Navy and Air Force began firing orders at Aerojet and the company took off with a whoosh itself. Within 18 months, it got six Government loans to expand, still needed more cash. It got it from General Tire & Rubber Co. (which liked Aerojet so much that it now owns 81% of its stock...