Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trucking association curtly summed up the tire situation: "It stinks...
...this latest rubber crisis, WPB appealed for an immediate increase in tire production-a full 30%, now when the need is greatest. Could Akron meet...
...rubber's Big Four of Akron (Goodyear, Goodrich, General and Firestone). Akron was saddled with a six-hour day, which management started during the depression, and which the rubber workers grimly held to thereafter. Not till January of this year did the last group of Akron's tire workers agree to work eight hours, even for war. The whole tire industry's 45.5 hour week is under the national war industry average...
...Bite. In the face of this situation Akron does not chew as much war work as it has bitten off. As tire-making slacked when rubber got scarce, the Big Four grabbed orders for rubber rafts, gas tanks, ammunition, etc. Goodyear even set up its own aircraft unit, now employs 24,000 turning out Corsair fighters and plane parts. This was good business as long as the synthetic rubber program floundered. But now synthetic is pouring in, and Akron is trying to turn out more heavy tires than ever before...
...faced Dan O. Druge, 42, stood up before an employers' manpower conference in San Francisco. Dan, who owns and operates the Druge Brothers Manufacturing Co. (automatic tire gauges) with his brother, likes to speak his mind. And on his mind last week was a subject that has become more & more pressing to many a Western businessman: the place of the West in the U.S. economy...