Word: tiring
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Three months ago it seemed hopeless. The swanky Berkshire Symphonic Festival, after much hemming and hawing, had called off its annual summer festival in the western Massachusetts hills. Gas rationing and tire conservation made bucolic concerts risky business. But Conductor Koussevitzky was in a dither-partly at the thought of discontinuing the Berkshire Music School, an annex of the festival, where students learn the arts of conducting, playing, composing and operatic technique. He decided to run the Music Center himself, to put on a symphonic festival without the Boston Symphony...
...picked its mountain troops from among skiers, horsemen, mule-skinners, mountain climbers, trappers, prospectors, guides. Short to medium-sized men, the Army has found, tire less quickly at high altitudes. Fear of high places (acrophobia) is not always a disqualification: many a man who has felt nervous on a stepladder quickly learns a mule's aplomb on precipice edges...
Striking closer to the personal affairs of students than ever before, the Student Council passed a resolution Wednesday night urging all men with cars to store them for the duration in view of the gas and tire shortages...
...this summer, however, reports indicated that gas and tire shortages were narrowing the small car-owning group here, and the Council's recommendation will thus affect...
With WPB's fond blessing, Standard is now scheduled to produce by next spring 132,000 tons of butyl instead of the 60,000 tons originally planned. Since test runs have recently proved that butyl will make a light-duty tire good for at least 16,000 miles at 40 m.p.h. or less, the 72,000 extra tons of butyl will give the U.S. more than 12,000,000 serviceable tires (8% of the tires now on U.S. passenger cars) over & above what it had previously had any reason to hope...