Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barging at 40 m.p.h. down a hill on the main highway through Salem. Ill. when a front tire blew out. Swerving onto the soft shoulder, the bus careened with tremendous force into the abutment of an overpass. With a reverberation heard for a mile, the gas tanks exploded, spread flames which were soon shooting 40 ft. high. The wreckage rolled over, lay on its side across the road. The engine, torn completely off, fell 200 ft. away. The driver and another man shot through the windshield, badly hurt, clothes ablaze. Three others managed to crawl through the windows...
...disaster threat" in faulty lubrication of the propeller bearings. That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom in a spray of sparks while he propellers knotted like pretzels. With sirens screaming, ambulances dashed he wreck just as Flyer Amelia stepped out white-faced. Said she: "Something must have gone wrong...
...Rubber, plucked Francis Davis from the presidency of a du Pont subsidiary (Viscoloid), told him to salvage what had been the No.1 U. S. rubber company as late as 1925. Whittling the company's debt of $81,000,000 to $53,233,000, Rubberman Davis consolidated operations, modernized tire-making methods, pushed other rubber products, went in for Lastex, a patented, elastic spun yarn which is knitted or woven into such things as sweaters, girdles, slipcovers...
Worthy as was U. S. Rubber Co.'s progress in 1936, Goodyear's was even better. Profits last year were $10,831,000, compared with $5,452,000 in 1935. Old Harvey Samuel Firestone's sound Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. earned $9,142,000 for its fiscal year ending last October, its best year since 1927. No. 4 Rubber company is B. F. Goodrich Co., which last year earned $7,319,000, compared with $3.429,000 the previous year...
Rubber's Big Four annually make 91% of all the tires for U. S. automobiles. William Francis O'Neil's General Tire & Rubber Co. makes another 5%, with Lee, Dayton, Fisk, Seiberling, Mansfield and Pharis splitting the remainder. Total number of tires sold in 1936 was 58,000,000, compared with a high of 72,000,000 in 1928. Tires now last at least 20,000 mi. instead of the 8,000 mi. they were good for 15 years ago, but more cars and more mileage per car per year have complemented technological improvements. Current competition...