Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flat Fixer. The Gates Rubber Co. of Denver put on sale a gun that repairs flat tires by shooting a rubber compound into punctures while the tire is still on the wheel. The compound seals the hole in the tire casing and also patches the inner tube. Each Vulco-Weld Tire Gun contains enough compound to fix 50 tubeless tires or 20 regular ones. Price...
...Jersey set up company health programs with a limited emphasis on the protection of executives. But to most companies, the fallacy in lavishing care on their machines while neglecting their men, is a recent revelation. No longer is an ulcer the badge of loyal devotion, a spare tire around the midriff an excuse for a gibe. They are visible signs of the depreciation of a valuable company asset. By last week the concern had become so great that Dr Harry J. Johnson, director of the Life Extension Examiners, could confidentially describe health programs as "the hottest thing in medicine today...
...only 1,085,000. But McGraw-Hill thinks the small circulations of its weeklies, fortnightlies and monthlies are parceled out where they count, among businessmen, technicians, scientists, and other specific groups. To advertisers, who pay high space rates, McGraw-Hill plugs the theme of a select audience, e.g., a tire manufacturer is assured that his ad in Bus Transportation will be read only by bus company executives, municipal officials, etc. "We put up a tent," says Editorial Director Ralph Smith, "and tell everyone we're going to put on a certain kind of show and sell admissions so that...
Rubber. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., biggest of the tiremakers, saw its sales top $1 billion for the second successive year, and its net bounce from $36.6 to $39 million...
President Conant may tire of Germany and return to Harvard, Dahl of the Boston Herald suggests in today's cartoon prediction. At least, Harvard's next president will have Conant's grin and subordinate facial characteristics. The only difference will be a superfluous mustache and sideburns...