Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...load on foreigners in March 1950, adventurous U.S. investors put $15 million into the new nation. Kaiser-Frazer Corp. is putting up a $2,500,000 auto plant in the Haifa Bay area; Philco Corp. has built a refrigerator plant near Tel Aviv; General Shoe Corp. and General Tire & Rubber Co. each has a factory...
...each call. There were 45 calls from or about Dawson, 151 from Boyle or his office. Mostly, Boyle or his men wanted him to see some "very dear friend" on an RFC matter. And in August 1950, the Democratic Committee called about a loan for Pacific Rubber Co., a tire company "wholly or partly owned" by President Truman's good friend Edwin W. Pauley. Mr. Dunham gave it-"I don't like to use the word special"-consideration because "we were anxious to have small businesses interested in rubber production...
...Hoof. In El Paso, Deputy Customs Collector Herman F. Cherry revealed that a surprise inspection at the Juarez bridge turned up: 1) 32 Ibs. of meat inside a spare tire; 2) an 8-lb. beef roast in a woman's purse; 3) a huge, raw, unwrapped round steak being worn as a girdle...
...other members were of the same high caliber: Miss Anna Lord Strauss, former president of the National League of Women Voters (vice chairman); the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; Republican ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut; Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; William E. Leahy, Washington lawyer; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Charles H. Silver, vice president of the American Woolen Co.; and the Most Rev. Emmett M. Walsh, Coadjutor Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio...
MANLY FLEISCHMANN, 42, Buffalo lawyer, World War II legal adviser to WPB and other boards, now head of NPA, which has the overall job of allocating all materials needed for arms production. Fleischmann's chief aides: LELAND E. SPENCER, 42, vice president of Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. and World War II tire czar, rubber division boss; MARSHALL M. SMITH, 54, former president of E. W. Bliss Co. (machine tools), allocating industrial and construction machinery for defense; DAVID B. CARSON, 60, vice president Of Sharon Steel Corp., channeling iron & steel to arms contractors; WALTER SKUCE, 46, Owens-Corning Fiberglas executive...