Word: tiring
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...around the corner, it's here!" shrilled Dallas' Alexander Motor Co. "What will you do? Play safe or be caught with an old car?" Even without such a shock treatment, there were people who, remembering World War II shortages, rushed to get on new car waiting lists. Tire sales zoomed, but there was little evidence that housewives were stocking up on groceries...
...greatest worrying aloud about vital industrial materials was over rubber. To make up for the shortage in natural rubber the Government was already producing about 35,000 tons of synthetic rubber a month in its plants. But Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s Chairman P. W. Litchfield last week said that the U.S. should reopen its other synthetic-rubber plants, boost production to 50,000 tons a month, and build up a stockpile of at least 200,000 tons. Warned Litchfield: "With no stockpile of synthetic rubber, our national security is placed in greater statistical jeopardy than just prior...
...peak production at General Motors Corp.* and other auto plants was reflected in the steel and tire industries. Both Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. and Pittsburgh Steel Co. racked up bigger profits in the first quarter than they had in all of 1949, and Armco Steel Corp.'s quarterly net of $11.8 million was about 42% above last year's period. B. F. Goodrich Co.'s sales were up 12% over 1949's first quarter; U.S. Rubber Co.'s were...
...skull and lift hard, pulling the head up and stretching the neck muscles . . . Wiggle the toes inside the shoes. Limbering the big toe can do much towards improving the general feeling of well-being . . . Flabby buttocks have much the same effect on the body as a flat tire has on a car . . . pull them in and up . . . a dozen, two dozen times...
Rickenbacker eventually collected three Duesenbergs, plus a pound of good-luck charms, and a team of drivers, mechanics and pitmen to lead to the racing wars. It was a hard and dangerous life-Rickenbacker was almost beaten to death by flailing rubber when he blew a tire at 90 miles an hour at Galveston, and missed death by inches at St. Paul when his car somersaulted three times...