Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York City went a handsome map of France from the Michelin Tire people in Paris. The map reached its goal despite the address on the envelope: "Mr. O'Dewey, Maire de New York...
...years have been kind to the famed Novello profile and his eyes still flash the same old exciting theatrical fire. His fans never seem to tire of his shameless romanticism. "I suppose," Novello once remarked, "it has given them some focus in life...
...million). The total world rayon production in 1946 was only 1.7 billion Ibs., compared to 1939's 2.3 billion. Moreover, important new customers had arisen to compete with dress manufacturers for the supply; this year the U.S. rubber industry, which decided to continue its wartime substitution of rayon tire cord for cotton, will probably take about 26% of the total U.S. production, v. 2% in 1940. Although U.S. productive capacity had more than doubled since the war began, the 900 million Ibs. being spun this year was still far short of demand...
Most bewildered of all was the rubber industry, which only recently had cut tire prices to below prewar levels (TIME, June 23). Cried William F. O'Neil, president of the General Tire & Rubber Co.: "It seems strange that the Department of Justice fires only verbal guns at industries putting price rises into effect but files criminal charges at one of the few industries cooperating wholeheartedly with the President's fight against inflation...
...born Regina Resnik was beginning to feel the strain. Said she: "The other times, I guess I had the calm of ignorance, but now it is a nervous strain. I was really scared about Carmen." She was also a little wary of getting a reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such performances...