Word: tiring
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WASHINGTON--With the flat statement that the national welfare must come first, President Roosevelt said today he may have to requisition every automobile tire in the United States if world conditions grow worse...
...Army and the Navy between them will still have 92,500 combat planes. Army schools will graduate something less than 30,000 pilots this year, must step up their training pace next year. The rub: in the tension of long flights and in the electric strain of combat, pilots tire. Flight surgeons ground them, make them rest. But planes don't get tired. Back from a mission, refueled, rearmed, a plane is ready to fly again. Consequently, every plane needs one or more replacement crews...
...cheap. Retreads would cost an estimated $6 to $8 per tire-i.e., no more than retreading with the conventional "camelback," which is no longer available for civilian tires...
...applied by anybody, by brushing it on a worn tire, waiting until the first coat dries, brushing on some more (though it is best applied mechanically...
...nobody thought of Thiokol as a retread material until Kettering and the Society of Automotive Engineers last April set out to explore every possible form of rubber synthetic and substitute. They pried into the deepest competitive secrets of U.S. rubber processors without finding a quick, cheap answer to the tire problem. Then they called in the U.S. chemical manufacturers, again examined every possibility. Only one appeared good: Thiokol. To test its usefulness, they crowded a year's research into the last two months...