Word: tiring
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...rash of strikes. Following the lead of General Motors (TIME, June 7), industry was busily granting a third round of wage increases. General Electric, which had cut prices and tried to hold the line, gave up-and handed out a 9 to 15? an hour raise. Firestone Tire & Rubber settled for 11?, United Aircraft for 10 to 20?. The Aluminum Co. of America offered 9 to 13?. Chrysler had followed G.M.'s lead, and now Kaiser-Frazer came across with 14.4?; Briggs Manufacturing, Nash and Packard with 13?. All told, some 250,000 hourly workers got pay boosts last...
Leak Stopper. Lee Rubber & Tire Corp., noting the slow leak in the market for tires, cut the price of its biggest-selling line of tires by about 15%. Lee thus hoped to meet the competition of U.S. Rubber, Goodyear, B. F. Goodrich and Firestone. In the last month they had announced new lines of second-grade quality tires at lower prices...
...show not thy Bow Tie and thy Whitewalled Tire, lest thy friends shall be legion; for verily I say unto thee thou shalt know a tree by its fruits; therefore hear my words thus...
...cranked out his sweet-&-sour rhymes for 25 years, not even pausing at the death of his son (1942) and his first wife (in childbirth, two years later). Lately he seemed to tire of his monotonous Muse; in January Donna Wahnna wrote...
...almost forgotten phrase sounded loudly again last week. It was "seasonal decline." In Akron the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. cut production 30%, and other tire companies followed suit. It was the "normal" winter slump which, before the war, was common to the industry. But it was the first time it had happened since the war. Said Goodyear: ". . . The big postwar demand has been filled...