Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early (2:59 a.m.) takeoff, to meet U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston and his aides, drawn up on the cement apron. At the same moment Mexico's President Miguel Aleman started down a specially built staircase from the observation platform (which had been newly decorated with brown rugs, leather office furniture, gleaming brass spittoons). The 21-gun salute due a chief of state boomed out; the U.S. and Mexican anthems sounded...
Ploughmen, Yes. Leather-skinned Fausto Marcelli is a ploughman. He has eleven children, born with annual regularity over eleven years. Fausto likes big families-"It's good to have lots of workers"-but there has to be work to do. "Our plot at Frosinone is pretty good earth, but I'd need a lot more to feed 13 people. They have told me that the earth in Argentina is good-as black as a pair of new boots"-and Fausto rubs together his calloused, white-knuckled fingers as if feeling the black earth there in his hands...
...which he had boosted output. To hear Trud tell it, Comrade Matrosov was a combination Bedaux, Stakhanov and Henry Ford. Last week, in a straight-faced cable, Middleton described Matrosov's amazing changes. The foreman "found that much of a cutter's time was lost in carrying leather to the cutting machine. ... He figured out that this could be done by an auxiliary worker. . . ." Also the "needle-witted Mr. Matrosov" had noticed that workers of various heights stood on small steps before their machines; some had to bend, while others stood on tiptoe. "After thinking awhile, Mr. Matrosov...
...firm has the secret formula for the non-sweating cement, and trusts no one but its own masons with the mixing of it. The balls add to the game's speed and cost: they are golf-ball size but made like baseballs-tightly wound cotton thread covered with leather. They shoot around the cell-like court so fast that experts judge the ball's speed not only by the eye but by the "bock" sound it makes hitting the wall. Racquets, thin-shafted and fragile, are also costly. The late Charles Williams, regarded as one of the greatest...
...Brown, associate professor of Economics at St. Louis University, has analyzed the growth of the National Leather Workers' Association in "Union Policies in the Leather Industry," which will hit the bookstands in March...