Word: tiring
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...Paul Schmidt, German Foreign Office spokesman: "Yes, one tire has blown out on the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo tricycle...
...businessmen who fear reconversion got a "guinea pig" to watch last week. By studying it they may get a clearer idea of what some of those fears amount to. The guinea pig: the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. in Cumberland...
...Kelly leased most of its 1,000,000 sq. ft. of plant to the War Department, contracted to turn out small-arms ammunition on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis. Shrewd, handsome Kelly President Edmund Sidney Burke handled the conversion to war production. He stored some of the tire-making machinery in plant buildings, to be handy for the reconversion job which would come some day-no one expected it so soon. Kelly's payroll skyrocketed under war orders, soon reached an alltime high of 5,000 workers, of whom 2,500 were women. Half of the women...
...Rubber and tire factories awoke to the fact that the Government had taken over their stock...
Home last week from a 20,000-mile jaunt through the U.S., South America and England, bland, bulky Paul Weeks Litchfield, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s big-framed president, was chock full of war and postwar plans. Said...