Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After lunch (with two martinis) he naps for an hour, putters around in the flower garden (he tends the roses), and reads until he picks up Bernice at the station. After dinner Cozzens goes to his study, "where I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer." Cozzens' sole hobby is a pop record collection, vintage 1920 to 1927-Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman-which he plays by the hour on his hi-fi set. "Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking...
...four years, new industrial investment totaled $612 million, including some $70 million of U.S. capital (bringing U.S. investment in Cuba, mostly in public utilities and sugar, to $750 million by last year). Projects completed or under way include the island's first steel plant ($16 million), two tire factories, new oil-refining facilities ($70 million), expansion of the U.S. Government-owned nickel plant at Nicaro ($37 million). The boom shows no sign of slackening. Planned for the future: a $147 million expansion program by a subsidiary of American & Foreign Power Co.. a $75 million nickel-mining operation...
MUTUAL BROADCASTING, in the past a money-losing system, is being taken over from RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc., a General Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary, by a syndicate headed by Oilman Armand Hammer, who will become chairman, and Los Angeles Radio Executive Paul Roberts, who will become president. Group paid about $750,000 for network's good will and advertising contracts with 480 U.S., Canadian stations...
...Balanced Tire. U.S. Rubber Co. has developed what it calls the first passenger ire with a built-in permanent balance. The tubeless tire, called the "Safti-Flight," contains a wide, dense strip of rubber that runs completely around the nside rim and is buffed out in spots to balance the tire. List price: $67.15 for a 14-in. tire...
...column in 90 minutes at his air-conditioned office each morning. Though the file box he calls the "item-smasher" is usually filled with rough notes for the column each day, Caen is haunted by the fear that he will run dry, or that San Franciscans will someday tire of hearing about San Francisco. Herb Caen has often been touted as Hearst HQ's choice to succeed aging Gossipist Walter Winchell, if and when W.W. ever retires. But even if Caen could spread his broad interests beyond San Francisco and nationalize his parochial, easygoing style, it is unlikely that...