Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tire Trouble. Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. made its name with an advertisement in which an elegant gentleman in a roadster, passing an unfortunate motorist with a flat tire, sings out breezily: "That happened to me once before I began to use Kelly-Springfield!" But Kelly-Springfield's name was always bigger than its business. Even before the profitless little company was recapitalized two years ago, a fight developed between its stockholders and its management. The stockholders blamed the management for Kelly-Springfield's troubles. The management blamed Depression. A third group, the noteholders, stayed out of the argument...
...Anarchists, Communists, to whom we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal principles of the universal solidarity of our social masonry. . . . We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties and all movements and provide orators who will talk so much that they will tire the people with their speeches until they turn from orators in disgust...
Michelin, the historic French firm of pneumatic tire pioneers, is one of Citroën's largest creditors. With some 30,000,000 francs ($2,000,000) at stake, Michelin decided last week to gamble on the popularity of the new Citroën. Perhaps in another three months the Ford of France will be able to get on his feet. For that period Michelin agreed to guarantee the debts of Citroën, but on a hard condition. To make sure that the slick motorman plays no tricks, Michelin forced M. Citroën to admit into...
Scovill issued the bonds in 1930 to buy A. Schrader's Son. Inc. of Brooklyn (tire valves), and Kidder, Peabody bought them from onetime Schrader stockholders. Since the bonds were outstanding when the Securities Act was passed, they did not have to be registered. Founded in the second year of President Jefferson's first term (1801-05), Scovill is the epitome of all good things Yankee. It was started as a brass-button factory. Scovill buttons and Scovill notions were the best stock-in-trade of every 19th Century peddler from Bangor to the Yazoo Delta. Scovill made...
...fixtures, razors, surgical instruments, automobiles, oil burners, typewriters, umbrellas, overalls, suspenders, locomotives, bicycles. Its own line, beside buttons, includes pipes, rods, sheets, plumbing fixtures, electric motors, blow torches, bolts, screws, nuts, food-mixers, condenser tubes, soda fountain equipment, vacuum cleaners, divers' helmets, 80% of the world's tire valves, 55% of all U. S. pins...