Word: tiring
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...Kelly grabbed the microphone, shouted out: "Illinois now 54 for Truman, four for Wallace." He turned to a henchman: "Did we make it?" He had not. It was all over. Running fast for the Truman bandwagon, Ed Kelly had only managed to get his fingernails on the spare tire...
...hundreds of the nation's essential trucks and busses are limping into garages-their heavy tires worn out, and no new ones available. From the great distances of the Southwest, one bus operator reported last week that from 25 to 50% of his equipment will be tied up within 30 to 60 days. Another trucker expects one-third of his units to be off the road by August 15. With new tires scarce, Michigan truckers sarcastically call their OPA tire-purchase certificates "hunting licenses." Nationally, the American Trucking Association says "day by day scores of trucks are going...
...Tires for Victory Rally" in Akron, Rubber Director Bradley Dewey urged "every worker whose output helps to build a heavy-duty or airplane tire to make his final sprint." The synthetic production program has succeeded, he said, and "our production capacity is now so great that we have been able to lend some synthetic rubber manufacturing facilities to provide extra quantities of high-octane gasoline. . . ." Then he pointed his finger at the present bottleneck: the lack of manpower and equipment in making heavy-duty tires...
...workers who could be shifted from making passenger-car tires have been transferred to heavy-tire production. All convertible equipment has likewise been transferred...
...that did not tire me physically was considered one of the 'toughest' jobs we have for women . . . riveting on the upright wing jigs. But I loved that...