Word: tiring
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...basis of Cake's report, the outlook for tire makers was brighter than they had expected. The U.S. will probably get 400,000 tons of the Far East's 1946 production, which will be blended with synthetic to stretch the supply. Estimated passenger tire production next year...
Overdrawn. Tire rationing may end Jan.1. But this will not mean tires for everybody. By the end of September, rationing boards had issued 780,000 more certificates than there were tires available...
Then, when Albert was 40 and Josie-Lee 32, the U.S. went to war. They packed up and went to Memphis, Albert to work in a tire factory, Josie-Lee to a job in an aircraft plant. In two years they saved $3,000. But they lived in a squalid water front boarding house, saw little of each other or their children...
There were strains and irritations in their new life. Albert, who had never touched liquor, began coming home drunk. Then he quit going to church, spent half their savings on a car. Then he took up with an 18-year-old girl war-worker. Josie-Lee went to the tire plant, where she fought her rival with fists and fingernails. She won, but Albert, who had watched, simply walked away with the weeping loser...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s chairman, Paul Weeks Litchfield. predicted that 350,000 tons of crude rubber would be available within a year, 900.000 tons in two years. Rubber processing machinery is on the way to Goodyear's Pathfinder Plantation on Mindanao where a trickle of rubber was produced during the Jap occupation (TIME...