Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candy, coal and chemicals, soap and scrap iron, fertilizer, leather, glass, paper, old rubber and garden truck were some of the things Interstate Commerce Commissioners in Washington pondered last week when opponents of the railroads' petition for a 15% freight rate increase began to present their rapid-fire testimony (TIME, July 27, Aug. 3). Shippers and manufacturers popped up and down in the witness stand to oppose Ex Parte 103 faster than the Press could keep track of them. The gist of their argument: if rail rates went up they, the rate payers, would divert more & more of their...
...slipped into David's little whitewashed hut and hid under a bed for many hours. There he overheard a whispered conversation between David O'Shea and his sister. Sister O'Shea went out of the cabin with a bucket containing one yellow woolen sock and a leather gaiter, which she burned. That was enough for the sleuth. He searched the grounds and found parts of Ellen O'Sullivan's smallclothes hidden in David O'Shea's hedge. Assistants pulled the other sock, the other gaiter, out of the bog not far from where...
...event and an outlaw horse of the meanest breed was Five Minutes to Midnight. Earl Thode of Belvidere, S. Dak. won the most coveted prize among cowmen when he rode the bucking beast against all comers without changing hands on the rein, losing a stirrup or pulling leather. In the "bulldogging" contest Mike Hastings of Lobo, Tex. took 22 1/10 sec. to overtake a Texas longhorn. In bulldogging the steer gets a 30 ft. start, the 'dogger leaps from his horse to the steer's head, throws it on its side, bites its lip and raises his hands...
...this period the President, on the Commission's advice, increased three duties (wire fencing, wire netting and Fourdrinier wire), reduced seven (maple sugar and syrup, straw hats, pigskin leather, edible gelatine, wood flour, wool felt hats), let stand unchanged six (ultramarine blue, wool floor coverings, pipes, pipe bowls, cigar and cigaret holders). The Commission's recommendation to cut the rates on canning tomatoes, tomato paste and cherries, sulphured or in brine, President Hoover rejected. Last week's flexing made the President's tariff score: rates cut, 11; rates upped, 6; rates unchanged, 14; total, 31. There...
Books cheap and dear, in leather, in paper, in boards, beautiful books and ugly ones, books to keep or to throw away are loaded daily in increasing lots upon a great U. S. public. Guardians of these truck- loads of print are the nation's librarians. Some think their duty is to furnish useful knowledge to all. But is it? Have they not already ruined the high aristocracy of thought in vulgarizing education? Should not a large part of the people-the simple, kindly folk-be left in ignorance so that they may carry on the world...