Word: tiring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thomas Alva Edison said last week: ''Without great improvements people will tire of talkies. Talking is no substitute for good acting we had in the silent pictures...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (World's largest in rubber. Daily output of 95,000 tires and tubes, 400,000 pairs of rubber heels. Reorganization of 1921 followed by much litigation, further reorganization in 1927, present management potent and prosperous.) Net profit, first half...
Harvey Samuel Firestone, Tire tycoon, figured in two days' headlines as follows: (first day) HARVEY S. FIRESTONE ILL WITH PNEUMONIA; (second day) FIRESTONE BETTER . . . PNEUMONIA AVERTED...
...Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five men were flung into a ditch, unhurt. W. L. Tribbey and Paul Kille, neighbors, drove up, offered help, were greeted with guns. Would-be Rescuer Kille was beaten over the head and shot in the leg. Captives Kinne, Kille and Tribbey were driven...
...names listed there were no actors or cinemactors, no athletes. Some readers of Dimanche Illustré considered tire tycoon Andre Michelin worthy of immortality and Paris' moral Prefect of Police, Jean Chiappe...