Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main line from Cheyenne to Denver, where the cow-country meets the mountains, lies the brisk Colorado city of Greeley. Into Greeley with a flivver-pulled trailer in the fall of 1930 steamed one Elzy Alumbaugh ("Buzz") Hoover, 28, husky, square-cut, leather-lunged, with a diploma from Fred Reppart's School of Auctioneering, a wife, two children and $10. He found a place to park in Greeley's junky fringe, pushed his gallon hat back off his forehead, and got down to business...
MAUD-Edited by Richard Lee Strouf-Macmillan ($3.50). The Journal of Maud Rittenhouse, beginning in 1881 when she was the smartest and (nearly) the prettiest girl in high school in Cairo, Ill. What Maud confided to her leather-bound journal during the next 14 years makes as fascinating reading as was ever found in an attic...
...motor cars and could produce about 6,000,000, which directly or indirectly employs 6,380,000 workmen, which in a year uses 176,000 tons of iron, 329,900 tons of rubber; 63,000,000 square feet of plate glass; 21,156,000 feet of leather upholstery; 191,700 tons of lead; 12,600,000 pounds of nickel; 619,434 bales of cotton; 100,000,000 sq. ft. of hardwood; 19,718,000,000 gallons of gasoline; 16,000,000 Ibs. of wool; 6,300,000 lbs. of mohair; 256,000 cattle hides; 590,000 tons of sugar cane...
McNicol's third-period touchdown came with a short but spectacular bit of running and Harvard again failed to convert. Early in the last stanza the visiting Freshmen made their last tally, as left end Barnes snagged another McNicol aerial and lugged the leather the remaining ten yards across the touchdown stripe...
CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 13--It's a breeze to the Lee of the Windy City today for the Crimson leather luggers if the Sargeant Gards-ella and the Coleman from the Burry Ayres of Lake Michigan. Letts hope that the Devine Maroons are Spreyer than last season or pull some Lowry Helden ball tricks Elser score will be a Row of Zeros...