Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...September a dapper State House politico and ex-tire salesman named Wallace Edwards suddenly announced he was publisher of the Times. But not until last week did another power behind the paper emerge from a woodpile of rumor and conjecture: Tennessee's Senator-reject George Leonard Berry, who got his start in a newspaper pressroom...
...employes ride with him in the elevator; his predecessor, Charles B. Seger, had risen to his office in solitary splendor. Mr. Davis told his men to work from nine to five, as he did. He toured the company's antiquated plants and gasped: "They're making tires like they made the pyramids!" He installed assembly line methods, introduced the "merry-go-round" (semicircular tire-building track), eliminated the "one man, one boot" system in his footwear divisions, modernized everything from boots to big belts. He also modernized the corporate structure, reducing U. S. Rubber's subsidiaries from...
Faith alone does not move mountains in Washington. Commander Rosendahl and disciples have had assistance from three companies interested in building more dirigibles. These are Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., whose Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. built the Akron and Macon, Carl B. Fritsche's Metalclad Airship Corp. in Detroit, and Interocean Dirigible Corp., recently organized at Richmond to develop a new "tunnel ship" (with propellers mounted tandem in a tunnel through the ship's centre...
...Important corporate users of market research: Procter & Gamble Co.; Lever Bros.; Eastman Kodak Co.; General Foods Corp.; Du Pont; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; American Telephone & Telegraph; General Electric Co.; Coca-Cola Co.; Standard Oil of Indiana; Swift & Co.; Bristol-Myers Co. Among important U. S. market researchers: A. C. Nielsen Co.; Percival White and Pauline Arnold of Market Research Corp. of America; Ross Federal Research Corp.; Archibald M. Crossley of Crossley, Inc.: Paul Terry Cherington; George Gallup; Daniel Starch; Henry Charles Link of the Psychological Corp.; McKinsey, Wellington & Co.; Paul Lazarsfeld; Elmo Roper (FORTUNE Surveys); Barrington Associates; C. E. Hooper...
There is a prevalent view that Harvard men either drive a car well or die at the wheel; but even the best of them tire of the endless body squeeze and traffic jam that abound in the University streets...