Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadians are horrified at the red-tape complexity of OPA forms. Canadians merely signed their names for ration books, didn't have to account for how many pounds of groceries they owned last November. Canada's fixed price on used tires is simply 40% of what a new tire costs; OPA defines price differences down to one-sixteenth inch of tire thickness...
Radio static has at last been smoothed into silence. So said the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. last week to a group of scientists and industrialists gathered for the dedication of the new $1,325,000 Goodyear Research Laboratory in Akron. To prove it, Goodyear displayed a small box which, hooked up to an ordinary receiving set, chokes the fiercest static to a mere whisper...
...gadget for inspecting tires that uses high-frequency sound waves (supersonics) to detect flaws. A tire is put under water and supersonic vibrations passed through it; if the tire is sound, the vibrations are recorded smoothly on a microphone and the gadget shows a green light. But if the vibrations hit an air bubble or break in the tire, the microphone's current drops, a light turns...
John Lyon Collyer, president of B. F. Goodrich Co., celebrated the third anniversary of his first synthetic-tire sale with a significant look at the future for all kinds of rubber. He forecast a world rubber demand of at least 2,000,000 tons a year-almost twice the world's peak prewar consumption...
...first the destroyer saw nothing more than the flotsam of defeat-empty gasoline cans, a soldier's kitbag floating, part of the landing gear of a German transport plane held up by a bloated balloon tire, a rubber raft on which a dead Nazi airman...