Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alice Weed, widow of one Beverly Weed, whom erring news despatches a fortnight ago asserted had invented "Weed" tire chains; at Jackson, Mich. Lieutenant Colonel Harry D. Weed, who invented and patented the tire chain and organized the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co.† in 1904, lives at Bridgeport, Conn., with his family...
Near Cresco, Iowa, last week, an automobile sped down a road, a tire blew out, the car turned over, flames burst forth. Out from beneath, unhurt, crawled U. S. Representative Gilbert Nelson Haugen, co-author with U. S. Senator Charles Linza McNary (Oregon) of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times...
...like having the horizon move into your front yard. Imagine being a bricklayer, an electrician, a clerk in a music store, an instructor of long distance telephone operators or a tire repair man, and being unexpectedly confronted, in person, with two men whose names have been appearing in newspaper headlines for four years. Connected with their names?Harry Ford Sinclair and Albert Bacon Fall?was something about oil, oil in Wyoming, oil belonging to the U. S. Navy. Millions of dollars had been involved. Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Fall were accused of doing something wrong about a lease, some liberty...
...defendants. But few talesmen had read about the case at all. A dozen peers whose lack of knowledge was adequate were soon chosen to try whether or not the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair conspired criminally to defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman, a tailor. They settled themselves in their box and prepared to try to understand, weigh, decide...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Miller Rubber...