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The pièces de résistance are the tires: enormous white Thick Bricks, a good deal bigger than the average balloon tire and a lot more eye-catching.

At first the destroyer saw nothing more than the flotsam of defeat�empty gasoline cans, a soldier's kitbag floating, part of the landing gear of a German transport plane held up by a bloated balloon tire, a rubber raft on which a dead Nazi airman lay.

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum can be regarded, like so many other Hollywood products by distinguished collaborators, as one more balloon tire with a blowout.

Firestone brought out a low-pressure "super balloon tire", U.S.