Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather journalism school...
...Many a leather-faced wartime ranker figured that it would be more profitable, in the long run, to become an enlisted man again when the shooting was over. Few had to drop as far back as Ralph T. Shannon, who had spent 19 years as an enlisted man when the Army called him to duty as a reserve officer...
Most important of all, the republics set to work to make what they could no longer import. Argentines shipped fewer hides, turned them into finished leather goods themselves. Chileans proudly looked for the label Fabricación Chilena on their tires, even though the rubber and cotton material still had to be shipped in. In Brazil's São Paulo alone, 300 new firms grew up during one year, to make such former import standbys as cotton and wool yarns, rayon, rails, leather goods cellophane, ceramic and chemical products...
...surgeon-whose wrist tendons had been cut at Dachau so that he might never practice again. Said Blaha: "Orders frequently were received at Dachau for skulls. Teeth counted a great deal. ... It was dangerous to have a soft, fine skin or good teeth. . . . Soft human skin was prized for leather and bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched its atrocity show. (The four in the dock sat bolt upright, clenching the rail...
...TACA's Manhattan office, bulky, genial Ben Pepper leaned back comfortably in the red leather chair once reserved for Yerex and took charge of TACA's corporate and financial affairs. Soon a new president will be picked. Most likely candidates: Ben Pepper or Tom Hardin...