Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tire Trouble...
...reflect that their principal operations from Britain last week were "supporting operations"-Fortress attacks on the Germans' Atlantic port of Nantes, on the submarine base at La Pallice, on factories near Paris which supply engines to the Luftwaffe on all fronts; R.A.F. night attacks on the great Dunlop tire factory at Montlugon, and on the Germans' only two direct rail routes from France into Italy...
...Wait. For the men it will be a matter of waiting, with unemployment compensation easing the wait. Within 30 days, bustling Mr. Burke expects to turn out his first synthetic rubber tire. From then on, re-employment will rise steadily until, in six months, the payroll will hit 2,200 (2,800 jobs less than the ordnance plant...
...businessmen who fear reconversion got a "guinea pig" to watch last week. By studying it they may get a clearer idea of what some of those fears amount to. The guinea pig: the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. in Cumberland...
...Kelly leased most of its 1,000,000 sq. ft. of plant to the War Department, contracted to turn out small-arms ammunition on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. Shrewd, handsome Kelly President Edmund Sidney Burke handled the conversion to war production. He stored some of the tire-making machinery in plant buildings, to be handy for the reconversion job which would come some day-no one expected it so soon. Kelly's payroll skyrocketed under war orders, soon reached an alltime high of 5,000 workers, of whom 2,500 were women. Half of the women...