Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year B. F- Goodrich and Good-year Tire 6 Rubber took their inventory losses out of earnings, whereas in 1930 they were taken out of surplus. On a comparable basis last year B. F. Goodrich lost $8,815,000 against $10,309.000 lost in 1930. But Goodyear made $1,328,000 against...
...Washington, however, is a more skeptical and pessimistic personage. Like those of Calvin Coolidge, his nostrils seem assailed by perpetually disagreeable odors. The Washington nostrils might have distended even more, had their owner heard of: 1) a project to sell his effigy painted on imitation leather as a back tire cover for auto mobiles; 2) a Manhattan theatre where a box office clerk had to tell a patron that a cinema called The Hatchet Man (see p. 28) was not about the father of his country; 3) a song called "Father of the Land We Love," written by George Michael...
...schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes, fountain pen sets, Wedgwood china plates, lampshades, silhouets and plaques. The tire cover notion he rejected as unsuitable. Some of the Commission's own projects he has copyrighted himself, to prevent them from being used for advertising. When asked why his name appears so frequently in all the Commission's correspondence, Congressman Bloom becomes perturbed. He says: "My God, somebody...
John Webster Thomas, 51, was elected president of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., succeeding Founder Harvey Samuel Firestone who became chairman after being president 29 years. Fortnight ago Mr. Firestone pleased stockholders when he told them the company had earned almost four times as much in 1931 as in 1930. Last week, they were reassured, the new title did not mean his retirement. John Thomas started as Firestone's first chemist. He was then 28, got a salary of $100 a month, a $10 raise from his previous job. The company employed about 700 men, and a corner...
Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, sponsored by Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Mondays...