Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...various fingers. At the dentist's I borrowed some wax to mold a thimble and began to experiment with my idea." An artist and architect who uses her hands a great deal, Mrs. Greneker experimented with different materials for her tool-carrying thimbles. After discarding wax, she tried leather and cellophane, finally chose silver, christened her gadgets "Fingertips." Last week, with patents applied for, she gave a demonstration in Manhattan for friends and newshawks...
...being bound as are all airlines by agreement with their insurance companies not to disclose accident causes until the Bureau of Air Commerce makes its official statement. This is to avoid premature damage suits. To avoid similar tragedies, United and other users of DC-3's immediately ordered leather boots to be fitted around all control columns, covering the V-shaped well. Spotting this innovation at Newark, the New York Herald Tribune's crack Aviation Editor Carl B. Allen immediately understood it, broke the story in a front-page scoop...
According to the drawing made this morning, the heavyweight division promises to be the feature of the event. Among the heftier leather-throwers is a large contingent from the gridiron, including Captain James J. Gaffney '37, Charles W. Kessler '37, Joseph H. Nee '38, and Tudor Gardiner '40. Many of the Freshman team and nonletter men from the Varsity have entered the competition...
...Another sit-down strike never occurred. In a leather plant at Grand Haven, Mich., 300 workers organized a "stay-in." They did their work by day, slept in the plant by night. The management of the plant did nothing, for the stay-inners were trying to prevent sit-downers from seizing the plant. Said the leader of the stay-inners: "We have nothing to gain from C. I. O. organization here and we have taken steps to make certain that our jobs will not be jeopardized...
Before a small but enthusiastic crowd, the Crimson yearling leather-pushers dropped its second and last match of the season last night to the M.I.T. Freshman. The final score was four and one half to three and one half...