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...billion federal-state road-building program, signed by the President before leaving Walter Reed Hospital. Starting this week, the U.S. motorist will begin to pay for the unprecedented 41,000-mile project with a tax of one cent more for every gallon of gas, plus a tax on tires that will run around 70? a tire for passenger cars...
...that Goodrich hired him as special analyst in 1937, gradually moved him up to vice president in charge of finance. Kelly went to the company straight from Purdue, has been with Goodrich for 31 of his 53 years. He was elevated from manufacturing vice president and head of the tire division. Goodrich spokesmen are mum on who has the edge for the chairmanship; insiders are betting on Keener, who is the third highest paid Goodrich executive (behind Collyer and Richardson...
...Blowproof Tire. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is test-marketing a nylon cord tire within a tire that it says can be driven about 250 miles after a puncture or blowout bad enough to slash the casing. The tire has two casings-inner and outer-each with an independent air supply. If the outer casing is punctured, the built-in-spare inner casing keeps the tire inflated. Goodyear hopes its Captive-Air tire will replace the tubeless tire, which turns punctures into slow leaks and allows a safe but quick stop. Price: 40%-60% more than standard tubeless tires...
...while Flaherty stayed out in front, where he had installed himself on the 76th lap (of 200). Behind him, Bob Sweikert, last year's winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...
...living by his wits." At the Dome and Coupole, Montparnasse haunts of the U.S. expatriate, he talked about death and Dostoevsky and was already veering toward the sort of grandiloquent occultism that today qualifies Miller for a career as a Los Angeles swami, should he tire of Big Sur. Perles lovingly records every drink...