Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greenmantle Cloth Bound, Path of the King 90? and $1.25 Thirty-Nine Steps Leather Bound, Three Hostages $1.75 Gap in the Curtain...
...Farm's former champions. Rock & Tom. Scorning to pick his ground, but hitching where Contractor Adrian's horses had left the load, he quieted his prancing giants, then eased their reins and let them lean into their collars. When he clucked them "G-up!" they heaved, set leather straining and tug chains tight. Whipping and rein-slapping are not allowed but were not needed to keep Rock & Tom's huge hoofs pounding, tearing, tossing up clods in their mighty struggle. The load moved, it kept moving. When ponderous Rock & Tom brought up with their snorting nostrils against...
...products of Boston's United-Carr Fastener Corp. would look amiss in the notion bag of a Yankee peddler. Its line, buckles, screw machine parts, purse frames, ornaments; leather, metal and bakelite specialities; automobile hardware radio tube pins, clips, sockets, soldering lugs; fastener attaching machines; fasteners for automobile, airplane and motor boat upholstery, carpets, tops, curtains; or luggage, footwear, gloves, raincoats, overalls, caps. Chief bugaboo of United-Carr Fastener is the ubiquitous zipper...
Founded in the gaudy 1890's, American Hide & Leather today has only two tanneries, one in Lowell, Mass., the other in Ballston Spa, N. Y. No dividends have ever been paid on its common stock. Arrears on $10,000,000 of preferred stock now stand at $21,000,000 or $214.25 per share, highest arrearage of any preferred issue on the New York Stock Exchange...
...common stockholders have long realized that they would see no dividends until the preferred arrears are removed. But the arrears cannot be paid without ruining the company. American Hide & Leather was last week proposing to its stockholders to solve the dilemma by replacing the 7% preferred with new 6% preferred, reducing the dividend requirement from $700,000 a year to $300,000. Preferred stockholders were asked to accept four shares of new common in lieu of their rights to the unpaid dividends. Finally, the company proposed to put an end to the extravagant hopes of its founders by writing...