Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of the court, dies at the back wall. His opponent, David Milford, a British schoolteacher at Maryborough, uses a delicate drop shot. For six games, Setzler's speed and Milford's cunning were evenly matched. In the seventh, Setzler behind at 7-10 and apparently dead tire amazingly began to hit the ball harder than he had since play started, took eight of the next ten points and the match, 4 games...
...thicket, stumbled over something. It was the naked body of a small boy, with head bashed in, lying stiff and frozen in the snow. Hunter Morrow rushed home, told his father. The local sheriff and his deputies came, examined the body lying 200 feet from a highway, studied fresh tire tracks and footprints, decided the child had been murdered elsewhere and been dumped there the night before. In a few hours Federal Agents arrived and the body was definitely identified as that of Charles Mattson, the 10-year-old whom a bearded, gun-waving kidnapper seized in the living room...
...like a giant's roller skate (see cut), the Marsh Buggy has an ordinary Ford V-8 motor coupled to a McCormick Deering tractor gear box and mounted on an expanded automobile frame. The four wheels are air-tight aluminum drums on which are mounted the largest rubber tires ever made for commercial use. Designed by Goodyear, they are 10 ft. high, 3 ft. wide, have a normal pressure of 6 lb. per sq. in. Both axles are pivoted so that each wheel can rise two feet without distorting the frame. There are ten forward speeds, six reverse...
...Engineering Co.; Col. Robert G. Elbert, Wartime Flyer Gill Robb Wilson, director of Aeronautics in New Jersey, president of the National Association of State Aviation Officials. Besides Commander Rosendahl, they were advised by Commander Garland Fulton, lighter-than-air expert, and by President Paul W. Litchfield of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., which presumably will build any future U. S. airships...
...mixed business it is almost impossible to determine precisely what the saving is. To circumvent this legal and accounting problem U. S. Rubber Co. last week announced a novel method of meeting the Robinson-Patman Act. After the turn of the year a new subsidiary called U. S. Tire Dealers Mutual Co. will purchase tires from the parent company on an equal footing with big buyers like motor-makers and mail-order houses. Mutual will handle all distribution, passing on the profits, if any, to its dealers. Thus while the dealers will still have to pay more for their tires...