Word: tiring
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...know better than I how quickly people tire of being saturated with publicity about any "fair-haired boy" type of personality...
...last week, in Chicago's Hotel Sherman, Louis Rudginsky, a Winthrop, Mass., tire dealer, packed up to go home. With him was Kid Boots Ace, better known as Timmie, his 13-lb. Boston terrier, who had just won first prize in the Western Boston Terrier Club show. Mr. Rudginsky put his thoroughbred into a black fibre bag bearing his initials in red letters. In the hotel lobby he put the case down, stepped away a few feet to say good-by to some friends. When he stepped back case and dog were gone...
...more cars in the first quarter of this year than in all of last. Blamed in part for delayed deliveries was the tool and die strike last autumn, but the fact remained that the Industry's orders had piled up to $250,000,000. In Akron, all major tire companies raised wages 10%. Firestone dusted off molds it had not used since 1929. Goodyear's chief statistician predicted tire sales for 1934 would reach 46,000,000 units...
Goodyear President Paul W. Litchfield was the least excited of all the tire executives who jam-packed the Domestic Relations Court in Akron last week. He has consistently maintained that the making of special brand merchandise is a common practice in U. S. manufacturing and wholly legitimate. Goodyear's concessions for the 1931 contract, he said, were simply a means of getting business when business was scarce...
...others of the Big Four tiremakers -Goodrich and U. S. Rubber-also manufacture special brands. But Firestone and most of the small companies regard the cheap tire as the chief source of the industry's woes. And last week many a tire man was sure that it was that embattled elder of the tire family, Harvey Samuel Firestone, who had egged the Government into Akron's Domestic Relations Court...