Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, in Liberia, Mr. Barclay and Mr. Mitchell are no longer on speaking terms. All official communications from the U. S. and Liberian Governments on the subject of Liberia's decision to suspend payments on a $2,250,000 loan from Finance Corp. of America (subsidiary of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.) had to be relayed through the French Government...
...General Tire 6 Rubber Co., always the envy of the rubber industry, reported a $202,353 profit for the fiscal year ended Nov. 30. In the previous year it lost $444,063. This year's profit was after all inventory write-offs and despite a 20% drop in sales to $16,679,000, largely attributed not to a slump in volume of tires sold but to the decline in tire prices. Relatively small, efficient, and under the very personal management of Founder-President William O'Neil, General Tire is the only leading rubber company that had paid back...
...height of the boom, the U. S. had become a 23,000,000-car nation. During 1930 and 1931, there was a slow falling-off in the number of cars in use. But during these years, while consumption of everything else was falling fast, the evidence of gasoline and tire sales showed that there was almost no decline in the consumption of automobile mileage. Thus there was reason to hope that there was no great surplus of cars on the road. Furthermore, there is a close relation between road-building and car-use; and new roads, bridges, tunnels continued...
Nevertheless in 1932, gasoline and tire sales dropped sharply. Oldest rattletraps were junked-and not replaced. The U. S. now finds that it has dropped precipitously to a 20,000,000-car nation...
Basis of the Lenz Process is the ancient art of tire perdue (a refinement of the secret process of Benvenuto Cellini). A figure is modeled in wax, which is in turn enclosed in a mold. Heat melts the wax out, and metal is poured into the aperture. Available for the first time last week were many of Alfred Lenz's secret refinements...