Word: tiring
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...Tires are far & away the biggest bootlegged item. Most local OPA or rationing board officials assert that there is little or no tire bootlegging in their district, harp on the fact that 80% of all new tires on the loose last December now rest in manufacturers' warehouses. But the remaining 20% is enough to support a brisk bootleg trade. Thus, of 3,500 tire dealers checked in the New York-New Jersey area, OPA itself found that at least 1% were actual violators. Of 1,575 dealers in five Western States, at least 60 were exposed as law breakers...
...deference to the tire shortage, White House limousines no longer carried liveried messengers, as in peacetime, to deliver Presidential invitations. Civic-minded Eleanor Roosevelt kept her convertible coupe mostly in the garage...
...Tires. In Minneapolis, Allen Daugherty's automobile dragged his wife 60 feet after she jumped from it during an argument. His excuse: "I didn't want to stop fast and wear out my tires." In Spokane, undertakers were relieved to learn that tire-rationing boards had stopped classifying hearses as "pleasure cars...
...Truman Committee had its teeth in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and was unwilling to let go. After gnawing at Standard's synthetic-rubber deals. Chairman Harry S. Truman posed with President W. S. Parish mugging through a Standard synthetic tire. Then he took a new bite: at Standard's sales to Lati, the Italian airline which ferried Axis agents and funds between Rome and Brazil...
Flies would be a major menace: swatters could not be made of metal, nor of rubber either. Tire-rationed motorists who had begun to think of buying bicycles woke up one morning to find that bicycles were rationed...