Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...normal. And cotton sagged last week, distant futures slipping below 10? per Ib. Meantime, elimination of the 4.2? cotton processing tax brought trading in cotton textiles to a halt. Prices were cut but not enough to satisfy buyers, who insisted that quotations must fully reflect the saving in taxes. Tire makers, who have been paying some $20,000,000 annually in cotton processing taxes, hoped to maintain present prices, saving the tax for themselves...
Audiences never tire of talking about Britain's No. 1 conductor. His father was Sir Joseph Beecham, an amateur veterinarian who made a fortune with patent pills, earned a baronetcy with his many philanthropies and still left plenty for his son to squander on music. Sir Thomas once went bankrupt for the sake of music in England. At a conservative estimate his losses have amounted to over...
...turn up a face of monstrous grief, one eye closed, the other alert and blue (see cut). Last week Berlin Zoogoers attributed Roland's death to a heart broken by loneliness. Berlin doctors, however, set about knifing through a hide as thick as a truck tire for some more realistic reason for his demise...
...return load of oranges, automobile parts and general merchandise, the caravan headed back East by approximately the same route, this time aiming for Manhattan. Again all went without a hitch, except for an arrest in New Mexico for overloading, a 30-min. delay near Cleveland for a flat tire The caravan shouldered on through blizzards, finally waddled into Manhattan last week in seven days, beating its own schedule by 24 hours, the best railroad freight schedule by 72 hours...
...Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. made $5,649,000 in the year ending Oct. 31, 1935, compared to $4,154,000 in the previous twelve months. Sales were...