Word: tiring
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...Enjoying Two Dinners, or Invention of the Stomach Pump, which shows a doctor perched on a chair, fountaining the bilge from an overstuffed gourmand with a four-ft. contraption resembling a tire pump. Others wait their turn. Cries one: "Be quick Dr. there is another glorious Dinner...
Without doubt the British have born the brunt of the whispering campaign. Almost every frustration which the American have undergone in the last month has been laid at their door. For example, the sugar shortage, tire and gas rationing, and the shortage of tankers for oil transport were all attributed to the British. Every military reverse has similarity been alleged the result of British incompetency or worse. They seem to qualify as the number one scapegoat...
...Capone-model bootleg rings have been uncovered. Most bootleggers are independent operators from petty rackets (like pinball machines), race tracks, dance-halls; many are once-legitimate tire dealers. Whether in Maine or Utah the procedure is the same: the motorist makes contact through his own filling station, is shunted into a cozy nearby bar to haggle price and delivery with the bootlegger or his agent. Some tires are stolen. Others come from pre-Pearl Harbor stocks of crooked dealers who did not list them on OPA's inventory forms, hid them in cellars, attics or backwoods garages. Prices...
...hotbed of tire bootlegging is Los Angeles. Reasons: 1) the city has a poor transportation system, rambles over 450 square miles; 2) Angelinos are cash-rich and conscience-poor. Last week one cinemactress laid out $800 for eight tires, had them hijacked out of her garage the very next night. And barflies bandied the story of a film writer who bought five complete sets of tires. Month ago police nabbed tire dealer Guy O. Bryan, were flabbergasted when he freely admitted selling $28,000 worth of new tires since Pearl Harbor. Gloomed an OPA official: "There is an uncontrolled reservoir...
Rubber companies ask to be excused for the limited tire production resulting from their unfamiliarity with new-low grade materials which is formed in relatively few molds used 24 hours...