Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patent No. 2,000,000 is for an "improvement for pneumatic tires for railroad cars."* Inventor Ledwinka thinks very little of it. Said he: ''Rubber at high speeds builds up a tremendous heat, enough to blow out the tube, or in solid tires to melt them internally. We were forced recently to replace pneumatic tires with metal wheels on a train we shipped to Texas." Budd Co. will develop his railroad tire, said he, "to meet competition...
...Most people had never heard of Canada Dry ginger ale and the U. S. pop business had no chic when, in 1923, Parry Borland Saylor became head of the U. S. branch of Canada Dry Co. of Canada. A sharp, aggressive onetime tire salesman, he made his product look as much like a champagne bottle as possible (green glass, gold-foil collar), went after the public with a svelte and costly advertising campaign. The results so astounded his Canadian bosses that they sold the parent company to him on the spot. But Parry Dorland Saylor soon struck a snag...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...more alarming to motormen last week than Organizer Dillon's talk were actual preparations for a strike in Akron, Ohio's tire & rubber plants of Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone. Flatly rejected by managers had been demands for abolition of company unions, recognition of A. F. of L.'s United Rubber Workers union. Late in the week the National Labor Relations Board hopefully stepped in, demanded that Firestone cease violating NRA's Section 73. The Board accused the company of refusing to allow its employes to elect their own representatives for collective bargaining, of favoring and financing...
Across West Virginia coal fields, through Ohio tire towns, around Michigan automobile factories, over Pennsylvania steel plants and past New England textile mills, the first warmish winds of early spring last week wafted vehement talk of strikes. This chorus of discontent was music to the ears of Labor's leaders, assembled in Washington. For weeks they had been using, with no great success, all their powers of peaceful persuasion to induce Congressional committees to act upon a stack of labor legislation. By last week they were resorting to threatening strike talk as a means of blasting their pet measures...