Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valorization of coffee is a sufficient indication of the danger of government meddling in international trade. The present hubbub over rubber is mainly a political rather than business issue. It proceeds more from a desire to "twist the lion's tail than from a tender sympathy for tire manufacturers...
...largest semirigid airship in the world, the TC-2, having a gas capacity of 750,000 cubic feet, is being completed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of Akron, Ohio, to serve as an airplane carrier. The Washington Naval Conference placed a limitation on the number and tonnage of ship airplane carriers, but no such restriction was placed on airship carriers-at that time scarcely thought of as practicable. Army experts also claim that the airship carrier will have many advantages over the naval airplane carrier...
...bill." Edward of Wales: "While riding in the Army point-to-point race at Arborfield, I took my seventh bad fall in four years and came up unhurt. Newspapers point out that as far as horsemanship goes I resemble Henry VIII more than William III. Henry used to tire out eight or ten horses a day by hard riding. William died from a fall when his horse stumbled over a molehill." Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince: "I had my photograph taken on my solitary Dutch isle-a clear profile against a dark background of clouds. When it was shown...
...return trip, by way of Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Toledo, Akron, and Cleveland, such firms as Procter and Gamble, the National Cash Register Company, the Timpkins Coal Company, the Libby-Owen Glass Company, the Toledo Ship Building Company, and the Goodrich Tire Company will be inspected. From Cleveland to Boston the itinerary includes the White Motor Company at Cleveland, the Eastman Kodak Company at Rochester, the Dutchess Bleachery at Wappingers Falls, the American Brass Company and the Winchester Arms Company, both at Bridgeport...
...manipulators. Press estimates of Mr. Saunders' profits range between 2% and 7 millions. But this profit is, of course, on paper, not cash in the bank. Mr. Saunders, as the result of his operations, now owns most of the stock of his company. The southern banks will probably tire of carrying this stock for him indefinitely, especially as there is no good market for it. When he comes to sell it, his present paper profit will be greatly reduced by the operation, if not wholly wiped...