Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and B. F. Goodrich Co. put most of their departments on a six-hour day as an emergency means of providing for the largest number of employes...
...flat tire, first of the year, was what President Hoover's automobile got last week as it carried him from his Rapidan camp back to the White House. At the camp remained Herbert Hoover Jr. According to Dr. Joel T. Boone, Herbert Hoover Jr. has tuberculosis in its initial stage. The lung lesion is small, full recovery is anticipated. (¶To be U. S. Minister to Liberia President Hoover last week, as custom dictated, appointed a Negro, Charles E. Mitchell, business manager of the West Virginia State College for Negroes...
...fact, however unrelated, was that before the ensuing week was out leaders of the industry met and conferred and, on the one day of the week when all stocks were weakest, rubber stocks suddenly firmed, flurried higher on the glad tidings that some of the many troubles of the tire industry had been patched...
...much this agreement will really help the over-produced tire industry is yet to be seen, but it aims to terminate the most vicious phase of overproduction: price-cutting. The recent war began around July i when one large manufacturer broke the unwritten law of the tire world by stealing an important southwest dealership from another. Retaliatory steps were taken; other companies became involved; havoc was played as each company vied in adding more 10% discounts to its prices than rivals...
Another rubber item last week was a petition for receivership against Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. (Keep Smiling with Kellys). Answering that the application had not been made in good faith, Kelly-Springfield claimed it has suffered no more than any other tire company, that its present position is better than the "current assets nine times current liabilities" showing of June 30, that it earned $270,000 during July and August...