Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dudley Dickinson. To Lansing he summoned Chrysler's President K. T. Keller and Vice President Herman Weckler, the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers' President Roland Jay Thomas, Richard Frankensteen, et al. No strong man, 80-year-old Mr. Dickinson tried none of the around-the-clock, tire-'em-out tactics which ex-Governor Frank Murphy used to apply to stubborn negotiators. As though he were teaching his Bible class in the Center Eaton Methodist Church near Charlotte, Mich., Luren Dickinson piped: ". . . If you have faith, and apply the Golden Rule, you can get together...
...Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.'s Paul W. Litchfield this week fixed a figurative bayonet and counterattacked the wartime forces that tend to inflate prices and costs. In full page national ads, full-jowled No. 1 U. S. Rubberman Litchfield announced tire price cuts of as much as 12½%, in spite of a wartime increase of nearly 25% in the price of crude rubber (August 29, 16¼? a lb.: Oct. 27, 20½?). After "streamlining" plants and methods, costs were slashed to absorb September's rubber inflation as well as the rubber business' big complaints...
...plainly perceive you will not be at rest, Till you've conquered all lands, both East and West. So Egypt is yours; your ambition then ranges, And bears you away to the Tigris and Ganges. But when crown'd with success, and with glory you tire us, What's left to be done when return'd to Epirus...
Measure of the technological progress of U. S. rubber engineering is the difference between a 1926 (4.40 by 21) tire and a 1938 (6.00 by 16) tire: model 1926 sold for $24, ran an average of about 14,000 miles, costing the average U. S. car owner 1.69 mills a mile; model 1938 sold for $19, ran an average of almost 27,000 miles, cost the average U. S. car owner only .73 mills a mile. The auto industry has not stood still, but it has not any better record...
...shoes the wheels of most top-flight U. S. racing cars, publishes its half-year report at the end of April. Last spring it had encouraging news for its stockholders in spite of the fact that one of its major customers, Motorman Henry Ford, is rapidly expanding his own tire production in the River Rouge plant. For fiscal 1938's first half (October-April) Firestone turned a net income of $2,429,738. This year's six-month...