Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Equatorial Africa. "Seven lions surrounded our camp. One actually entered the front seat of an automobile parked nearby and another almost chewed up the rear tire. A third lion managed to get at a camera, which was soon reduced to a pulp. It was a thrilling night, but all is well." The experience befell three Boy Scouts now photographing wild animals on the high equatorial plateau just east of Lake Victoria, Africa. The boys-Robert Douglas, 16, of Greensboro, N. C., David Martin, 15, of Austin, Minn., and Douglas Oliver, 15, of Atlanta, Ga., are with Mr. and Mrs. Martin...
...Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Manhattan Republican, financier (New York Transportation Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.), and Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware Republican, industrialist (chairman of General Motors Co.). Reason: Prohibition...
...accompanied by British medicine, British education. Lever Brothers became rulers of a black empire of 1,860,000 acres, exploited its mine of raw materials, its cheap labor. Last week, black labor in the Congo demanded and got 19? a day. Like the soap works at Port Sunlight, the tire factories at Akron, Ohio, must be served. From one source or another, an unending supply of rubber must pour into the plant of Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Angry at the cost of obtaining it from one source (British), Harvey Samuel Firestone determined to get it from another. Said...
Another bankruptcy, last week, was the Mason Tire & Rubber Co. of Cleveland...
Fisk (from Chicopee Falls, Mass.) and Hood (from Watertown, Mass.) have impressed tire-users with their intimate advertising ? Fisk with its fetching "time- to-re-tire" child, Hood with its blue uniformed traffic arrester. Kelly-Springfield has definitely associated its tires with the most expensive makes of motor cars; deliberately it has made itself the "class" supplier. Miller has made its tire reputation equal its early reputation for druggist sundries. Less important than these are Ajax and Manhattan...