Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Street, those of 57th Street (and of the East 60s and "70s, to which many galleries have recently migrated) are usually just looking. With a good visual memory and a will for the work, any looker can build a splendid art museum in his own mind-where feet never tire and the lighting is good. Among New York's candidates for such imaginary museums this week were the works shown on these pages. Their quality (and lack of it), as well as their extraordinary range, were typical of the New York art world at midseason...
...m.p.h., and from there into cars which will then speed up to 15 m.p.h. for the two-minute trip to Times Square and slow down again to let them off. Builder of the new shuttle: Akron's Passenger Belt Conveyor, Inc., a newly-formed affiliate of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the world's biggest rubber company...
Back home, Litchfield designed the first successful U.S. pneumatic tire, got a patent, and put Goodyear in production. By 1906 he was back in Britain, and this time Goodyear won. Says Litchfield: "That's when we really started to go." By 1916 Goodyear's sales overtook its biggest competitors, Goodrich and Diamond, even though they merged to fend off Goodyear. With the tire business booming, Litchfield soon started exploring other fields, made the first U.S. Navy blimps and balloons in World War I, later tried its hand at dirigibles. In World War II the company...
Hugh MuCurdy's Wesmen, in their third game of the season, scored after only six minutes of the first period. Wesleyan maintained this advantage aggressively until the frustrated Crimson began to tire, and then added the clincher with only five minutes left in the game...
...TUBELESS TIRES will be standard equipment on most 1955 autos (including all five Chrysler lines). Goodyear tire production is now 50% tubeless, Firestone 60%, Goodrich 75%, and U.S. Rubber expects to be 50% tubeless by Jan. 1. Chief advantages of tubeless tires: they wear longer, have fewer flats, make steering easier...