Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cosmopolitan). Judson Hammond (Walter Huston) when elected President of the U. S. is a free & easy party politician, addicted to undignified jollities and speeding in his automobile. When he blows out a tire at 98 m.p.h., he gets concussion of the brain. During his convalescence there are peculiar sounds of music in the sickroom; the curtains shake in what might have been a breeze. When President Hammond recovers, he is a changed man. His female secretary (Karen Motley) tells his male secretary (Franchot Tone) that she thinks the Angel Gabriel may be hovering about the White House...
From the moment Henry Ford gave him his first big tire order some 30 years ago, Harvey Samuel Firestone has been one of Mr. Ford's few close friends. The friendship explains a great deal about Mr. Firestone. Mr. Ford never lifts his spear without waggling it at bankers. Mr. Firestone's particular windmill is the mailorder tire. Each has a brand of individualism...
...fundamental principle," however, Mr. Firestone admitted there was and never had been "cooperation . . . cordial and constructive." That principle is the making of special brands (third and fourth grade) of tires for chain stores and mail-order houses to market at cut-rate prices. Mr. Firestone also makes third and fourth grade tires but chiefly to enable his dealers to compete. So did Mr. Tew, Mr. Davis and Mr. Litchfield until last fortnight. Then they agreed to drop the cheap lines they market under their own names, tried to coax Mr. Firestone into the scheme. Mr. Firestone would have none...
Said Mr. Firestone to his stockholders: "This new policy abandons the principle of keeping the independent tire dealer competitive in price with special brand tires sold by mail order houses and other distributors. It is impossible for me to understand why these three large companies persist in backing their special brand distributors without regard for their own profits...
Died. William C. State, 62, consulting engineer of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., inventor of a tire-building machine, builder of Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock; of complications following three months' illness; in Akron...