Word: tires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peak production at General Motors Corp.* and other auto plants was reflected in the steel and tire industries. Both Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. and Pittsburgh Steel Co. racked up bigger profits in the first quarter than they had in all of 1949, and Armco Steel Corp.'s quarterly net of $11.8 million was about 42% above last year's period. B. F. Goodrich Co.'s sales were up 12% over 1949's first quarter; U.S. Rubber Co.'s were...
...skull and lift hard, pulling the head up and stretching the neck muscles . . . Wiggle the toes inside the shoes. Limbering the big toe can do much towards improving the general feeling of well-being . . . Flabby buttocks have much the same effect on the body as a flat tire has on a car . . . pull them in and up . . . a dozen, two dozen times...
Rickenbacker eventually collected three Duesenbergs, plus a pound of good-luck charms, and a team of drivers, mechanics and pitmen to lead to the racing wars. It was a hard and dangerous life-Rickenbacker was almost beaten to death by flailing rubber when he blew a tire at 90 miles an hour at Galveston, and missed death by inches at St. Paul when his car somersaulted three times...
...Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co. bought a minority interest (60,000 shares, worth $168,000) in the first tire-and-tube company in the Middle East. It will supervise construction of a $1,750,000 plant near Haifa, Israel, to employ 300 people, and will supply plant management and processes to produce 80,000 to 100,000 tires and tubes a year...
...Akron last week, Chairman Litchfield announced that work had begun on a $5,000,000 tire factory on the duchess' old land. When finished, it will turn out some 600 tires a day, provide jobs for 500 Luxembourg workers...