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Show 1 iAl FOB TIRES f h ire manufacturers this year are .i fight face to face with the stirring ) olom of taking care of the biggost i iand for tires of all descriptions that ' r. hns been known in the history of Y industry. - ?i o'mcthing like 5,000,000 pneumatics iQ ho needed to shoe America's auto- lies, and in addition, there are about .tj 00 motor trucks to be taken care QUO ud a flock of motorcycles approxi-;:i approxi-;:i ing 2;0,000 in number. This means t; in order to keep all of these vc-4 vc-4 es running, tire factories will be -5 icrt to their utmost capacity. 00M Although tho spring season has 7Mdi started, there is every iudicu-; iudicu-; tliaL the volume of tire business "(year will exi-oed by a great mar-n2 mar-n2 anything ever before known,' ' says JU JiTheobold. local manager of the :) jted States Tire oonipany. "Months t oar 1 zwc anticipated this demand and our Qgj rj big factories have been running iterruptcdly. night and day. We Shave made extensions and installed n'tbr j equipment which lias brought our wfi J ut. up to a point Avhcre we arc in tlon to meet every demand made sate, J a us. Gratifying progress is no-j,we;j no-j,we;j able in Detroit in the transforma-. transforma-. " of that plant, into what is cer-JOLto cer-JOLto be the largest tire facory in ij kworld. Buildings are going up, one 0 i another, and as fast as one is com. cd, modem machinery is installed, )ur vhccls begin to buzz, and the addi-ireftj1 addi-ireftj1 I swings into our vast general , imo of tiro production. In order tcj keep pace with the how yolous growth of the automobilo I i- its allied industries, tire makers v bo strictly on Hie job, so to speak. tttt9 iproduction facilities of oven a year ijt&. rc wholly inadequate today and a ifc-I1 of ailicipnting the country's tire Imj lircnu,nts i:t the onlv ono that eu-e eu-e fi a manufaetiirer to deliver his jflji Is when thev are wanted." ' 1 . |