Word: tiring
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...Dean Pardue is full of restless energy, has an extra long wire on his telephone so he can pace up & down the office while he talks. When tire and gas rationing came, the Dean bought himself a motor scooter, now dashes around Buffalo on it with his coattails flying in the off-lake breeze...
OPAster Bonnett made his ominous prediction before the rubber conservation conference of 2,000 tire dealers in Manhattan. His unstretchable rubber facts: U.S. passenger-tire stocks, new & used, shrank from 14,400,000 last January to 4,200,000 on Sept. 1. To assure adequate distribution, the U.S. cannot permit stocks to fall below this rock-bottom level. Thus it can no longer dip into the stockpile which kept the U.S. rolling for two years. From now on, civilian tire needs must be supplied from new tire manufacture. Estimated needs for the last four months of this year...
Swelling synthetic rubber production lulled many a U.S. citizen into the pleasant belief that the rubber-tired nation had rolled safely past the crisis point (TIME, Oct. 18). Last week, OPA's Tire Ration Chief, Sparks Bonnett, jolted them as roughly as a blowout on a curve. Said he: the vise-tight pinch in tires is just beginning...
...Tire makers have found, after much fumbling, that synthetic tire making requires an entirely new technique, new machines. Processing synthetic rubber to get it in proper condition for fabricating takes 25% longer than natural rubber...
...Tire quality is spotty, varies a good deal according to the skill of the maker...