Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harley's assistant, a strapping brunette of 33 named Anna Green, carefully filed the photographs, especially the nudes, which few women rebelled against posing for, in big leather-bound scrapbooks...
...there were iron deer on U. S. lawns, lending the last touch of grandeur to the fancy wooden scrollwork of the mansions behind them. Every home that could afford one had a "den," with leather armchair, pennants on the wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered...
Reporting a 14.5% increase in sales of explosives, a 41.8% increase in other nitrocellulose products like artificial leather, Atlas Powder Co. showed profits of $1,430,000 in 1936 as against $1,161,000 the year before. Hercules Powder Co. also famed for its dynamite and blasting powders, reported a profit of $4,284,000, compared to $3,175,000 in 1935. From bananas, ships and sugar United Fruit Co. made $14,176,000 last year as against $10,359,000 the year before. The white-uniformed salesmen who cry their wares from U. S. roadsides helped Good Humor Corp...
...Other weightings: farm products, 17.60%; fuel & lighting, 16.16%; metals & metal products, 15.04%; textiles, 8.01%; building materials, 5.47%; leather, 3.16%; housefurnishings, 2.62%; chemicals & drugs, 1.86%; miscellaneous...
...innocent young lass of the 18th century, to be kissed was to be as good as married. Young men of today are bolder, and young ladies far less scrupulous. To enjoy the play version of "Pride and Prejudice" fully we advise that after you have completely relaxed in your leather-backed chair at the Colonial, forget all the progress of the last two centuries in the mating arts, and reduce your idea of the animal, woman to a mere bundle of hovering, pent-up passion, afraid to let herself loose...