Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week German forces were in full retreat along the entire Russian front (see p. 25). In London, a British military commentator, declaring that "the German Air Force is literally worn out," estimated Luftwaffe strength as 35% less than it was when London was first attacked with fire bombs a year ago. Credit for that claimed destruction is shared by the R.A.F. and Russia. From Sweden, for whatever reason, came increasingly pessimistic reports about Germany...
Cyrenaica, which is as worn down from changing hands as an Indianhead penny, was British again last week...
...dangers of Japanese and Axis radio propaganda from the Far East were brought home to the U.S. last week in dispatches from Chungking and in the deep radio voice of a worn, heavy man named Carroll Alcott. The dispatches indicated that Jap broadcasts from scores of stations in Japan and occupied China were glutting the Asiatic air with "news" in Chinese, Burmese, Malayan and other tongues; that in default of good Allied counter-propaganda the "news" was taking effect. Carroll Alcott, who surely ought to know, had been warning about this for a long time...
...owner comes in before his tires are too badly worn, they can be simply recapped: their surface roughened, cement applied, a strip of camelback molded and vulcanized over it. Retreading costs more (about $7 for a 6-by-16 tire, or about half the price of a new tire) than recapping, † and uses more rubber, since the old top rubber, worn too thin for roughening, must be cut and buffed away. The camelback is then applied to the naked carcass. Even for a good retread job the tire must have some rubber...
...Neither retreading nor recapping is to be confused with regrooving. This merely cuts new treads (for safety) in a tire worn smooth. No new rubber is added, nor is the life of the tire prolonged...