Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scarcely better is the finished rubber products market. Even companies with no inventory losses have nothing to rejoice over. Bitter was the description given the U. S. tire market last week by Jules Hauvette Michelin when he announced that Michelin Tire Co., potent in Europe, will withdraw from the U. S. Said he: "Price is now decidedly the most important factor in closing any sale. The quality seems to have been lost sight of. . There is no profit for the manufacturer and no profit for the retailer either...
Died. Mrs. Helen Howell Garfield, 64, wife of James Rudolph Garfield of Cleveland who was Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, daughter-in-law of the late President James Abram Garfield; as the result of injuries received when, motoring through Portsmouth, N. H., a tire of Mr. Garfield's car blew out and they hit a telegraph pole...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber...
...Tire Trouble. John Henry Mears, theatrical producer; racing globetrotter, took off from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., in a Lockheed monoplane to beat the Graf Zeppelin's round-the-world time of 21 days. With pilot Henry J. Brown and a terrier mascot he reached Harbor Grace, N. F., tried to take off before dawn on a bumpy field, cracked up when a tire blew...
...From the deer's neck he removed the red stripe-an automobile inner tube. . . . The shot had exploded the inner tube and presumably broken the deer's neck." Investigation proved the owner of the inner tube to be a vacationer who, fortnight before, while repairing a flat tire, had been attacked by a deer, had thrown the tube in defense, landing it around the deer's neck. Other Stone Stories: An unselfish partridge, seeing the chagrin of an unsuccessful hunter upon his return home, broke its own neck, fell dead in front of the hunter...