Word: tiring
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...pursuit ship. His mount is the big bomber, which he insisted on developing in the U.S. when the minds of British airmen were on fighters. And he always takes along his lanky aide, Colonel Eugene Beebe, as copilot, for Hap Arnold's theory is that old fellows tire out and may need help at the end of a long flight. So far Colonel Beebe has found nothing to substantiate the boss's theory...
...Jesse Jones squeezed his moneybags, found he could afford to pay up to $25 a ton for scrap rubber delivered in carload lots. That makes the average old tire worth 25?, up 7? in a week...
...words were a bombshell of hope. From coast to coast newspapers broke out the big type: HOPE HELD FOR CIVILIAN TIRES SOON; PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC OVER TIRES ; RUBBERLESS TIRE NEAR, SAYS F.D.R.; PRESIDENT TAKES ISSUE WITH OWN WAR-AGENCY HEADS ON RUBBER CRISIS...
This belief was dead wrong. Nobody has yet made a decent tire without rubber. The United Nations are so desperate for rubber that gasoline rationing will soon be extended everywhere in the U.S., just to keep the present tires from wearing out. Even the treasure trove of scrap rubber which has been uncovered but uncollected in the U.S. is entirely needed for war uses. There is no chance that any civilian will be able to buy a new tire until 1944-at the soonest. Positively...
Sales of new cars, used cars and jalopies all hit bottom again last week. All over the U.S. the story was the same: gas rationing and the tire shortage have made cars a drug on the market. Only active buyers are the steelmakers; last month they swarmed through junkyards, snapped up 400,000 old cars at prices ranging from...