Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems incredible that at the Show a whole floor was devoted to specialties. It would take a car a block long to carry everything that was offered to refine the pleasure of motoring. There were windproof matches, cigaret lighters, electric clocks, radio outlets, pneumatic foot rests, fancy metal tire covers, heated windshield wipers, sunvisors. There was an ejector spring that opens the door at a touch on the handle. More costly was a shock absorber system operated from the dash which lets the driver adjust his car to the roughness of the road (called "ride control," featured on Buick, Graham...
...year ended Oct. 31, 1931) showed profits of $6,028,000. While this was less than Firestone has earned in most recent years, it was almost four times the 1930 figure despite greatly reduced sales volume. Cheering to shareholders was Mr. Firestone's assertion that "in 1930 . . . 20% more tire mileage was consumed than was sold and approximately the same was true in 1931. We feel, therefore, that this vacuum must soon be filled and that we can look forward to a considerably greater volume of business in 1932." Fallen Fruit. Atlantic Fruit & Sugar Co. was formed in 1924 after...
...Brown 3 to 0, while the Harvard hockey players slumped badly in their last game with Princeton last Saturday after defeated two crack Canadian teams from Queens and McGill Universities. The Middle West sextet has brought along only three spares, so the Crimson policy will probably be to tire out the opponents with one fresh line after another...
Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett coined commercial reward for having turned cinemactor, signed a contract to broadcast 13 Monday evenings for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. His fee: $4,000 a week, beginning...
...just about been settled that football was starting to decline. The Golden Decade of exploitation was over, the public was beginning to tire of the spectacle, and the depression was forcing others to lose an interest. Several universities had made efforts to de-emphasize the sport and several others had taken drastic stops to lessen professionalism. Several years ago Iowa had been forced out of the Western Conference, Navy had broken with Army because of the latter's unfair eligibility stand, and Columbia had given loud publicity to its efforts to lesson the pressure on football by starting an athletic...