Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princeton still rates as the collegiate style center, with Harvard low water mark. "They're crazy up there," a department store man grumbled. "They even cut holes in their elbows and sew on leather patches." Life...
...that her brother-in-law had a $6,800 NRA job in Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics, NRA headquarters began to buzz with rumors of nepotism...
...living is also made from an agricultural product began to fear not shortage but glut. This group? the tanners?have the misfortune to use as their principal raw material a commodity in which demand has no bearing whatsoever on supply. Hide production depends not on the use of shoe leather but on beef consumption. Cattle are slaughtered for meat and the hide is merely a byproduct...
...when the Government started to slaughter 200,000 half-starved cattle every week, the tanners raised a terrific howl. And they had a reason: in two months the price of hides had plunged from 9¢ per Ib. to 6¢, seriously threatening the tanning industry. (Shoe prices fall with falling leather prices...
...could be absorbed. Because this plan left the market with a surplus overhanging, hide prices hardly stirred off bottom. Last week it was announced that beginning Sept. 5 Federal Surplus Relief Corp. would buy all hides from Government cattle, eventually distribute them in direct relief as shoes and other leather goods. Hide prices proceeded to rally smartly...