Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool Castel Gandolfo, a Papal property in which most Romans expect Pius XI eventually to summer. As His Holiness whizzed along with his Master of Ceremonies suddenly POW !-a tire blew...
...days, then won the biannual Fastnet race for the first time. Last year Dorade was first in her class in the New London-to-Bermuda run. This spring, with a crew of five intruding famed Sherman Hoyt, who has navigated the Atlantic on everything except an inflated tire tube, the Dorade sailed for Norway in May. She arrived in 24 days after encountering two gales in one of which Roderick Stephens had to go aloft for three hours to repair a spreader on the mainmast...
...scarring the turf, seldom lost more than a point or two in his service games; sometimes he won without using more than four balls. Even when after winning the first he dropped the second and third sets, he seemed clearly in control of the match, waiting for Crawford to tire. When he came out for the fourth with a new racket and began to hit his flat drives even harder than before, it looked more than ever as though Crawford was on the run. When Vines took the set and they started the last one with 23 games each...
Employment. And last week though the stockmarket dipped and commodities turned soft, business continued to improve -long after the normal summer decline usually sets in. In San Francisco Amadeo Peter Giannini declared the Depression '"over." upped salaries in his Bank of America, restored dividends. In Akron the tire industry, rounding out its preparations for the National Industrial Recovery Act, topped two increases in tire prices with a 10% wage increase. In Washington the Federal Reserve announced that its index of department store sales stood only 2% under a year...
Chase itself bought in practically all the collateral for $22,700,000. Included were 95,000 shares of Republic Steel, 50,000 shares of Cliffs Corp. (iron ore), 98,400 shares of Firestone Tire, 77,000 shares of Goodyear, 62,000 shares of U. S. Rubber. 55,000 shares of Goodrich, 350,900 shares of Lehigh Coal & Navigation and working control of United Light & Power. What Chase intends to do with these new possessions Chase would not tell last week...