Word: tiring
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...position to manufacture the 'butyl' rubber from petroleum in any required quantities as rapidly as the necessary plant facilities can be installed." Building now at Baton Rouge is a 10,000 Ib.-a-day Buna plant for Standard, from whom Akron's Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has already obtained a manufacturing license...
...repair torn veins and arteries is a big problem for surgeons. For broken blood vessels grow limp, like a flat tire, and it is difficult to spread the severed ends into tubular shape so they can be stitched together. Some 30 years ago, Dr. Alexis Carrel, then teaching at Chicago, overcame this difficulty by stuffing torn blood vessels with vaseline. But this technique was so troublesome that few surgeons have followed it. Last week famed Physiologist Anton Julius Carlson of the University of Chicago announced that one of his medical students, Sidney Smith, had finally made the two ends meet...
...would have gradually emerged in cheap but serviceable uniforms. Types of shoes were to be reduced to two or three. The manufacture of pleasure automobiles was to cease." As it was, the Board cut the number of steel plow models for sale in the U.S. from 312 to 76, tire sizes from 287 to 9, styles and colors of bathing caps to one per manufacturer, kinds of wooden coffins...
Although big Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) has U. S. rights to the process for the manufacture of Buna-S, the German tire ersatz that shoes the wheels of Nazi military equipment, it is not yet ready for commercial production, nor have other synthetic rubbers made in the U. S. yet been shown commercially usable for tires. Last week, surveying its tiny stock pile, the U. S. rubber industry went into no panic, said not a word about the possibility of higher prices for tires. But the headlines helped speculators raise the price of spot rubber from...
...Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.-which branched out into batteries, plastics, steel parts, service stations, cotton mills-announced development of a new automobile spark plug that provides better ignition, quicker starts for cold motors. The plug has electrodes coated with polonium, a radioactive element discovered by the late great Marie Curie (and named for her native Poland). The polonium shoots a steady stream of subatomic particles which ionize (electrify) the air in the spark gap, make it a better conductor when the spark jumps...