Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Akron was falling down on its war job. The town last week had become a No. 1 trouble spot in the U.S. Grimy, rubber-smelling Akron is counted on to produce two-thirds of all the heavy tires needed for military guns and supply trucks and for half of all the U.S. heavy-duty tires. But Akron failed by 30% to meet its heavy-tire quotas in July and seems to be falling further behind. Result...
...problem, has been solved. U.S. plants now produce at a rate of 836,000 long tons of synthetic rubber a year (more than 25% above the peak prewar import of crude). ORD has no job left; what remains are manpower problems and production troubles in tire manufacturing...
...only real answer is greater production. The original 1944 goal was 17,500,000 heavy tires for civilian and military uses; thus far, production had averaged about 1,200,000 tires a month. To boost production, Rubber Boss Dewey got the Army to release fully trained tire workers over 30, and stepped up the pace of the $75,000,000 equipment-expansion program...
...Tires for Victory Rally" in Akron, Rubber Director Bradley Dewey urged "every worker whose output helps to build a heavy-duty or airplane tire to make his final sprint." The synthetic production program has succeeded, he said, and "our production capacity is now so great that we have been able to lend some synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities to provide extra quantities of high-octane gasoline. . . ." Then he pointed his finger at the present bottleneck: the lack of manpower and equipment in making heavy-duty tires...
...workers who could be shifted from making passenger-car tires have been transferred to heavy-tire production. All convertible equipment has likewise been transferred...