Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good for 20,000,000." Similarly two men with a reading knowledge of Russian were hired to study the effect of temperature and rainfall on the Russian wheat crop. Twelve others arranged the books on the shelves of the Department of Agriculture library, cleaned the volumes, oiled their leather bindings...
...Professional. The New Deal's head of the Treasury is a scientific farmer. The New Deal's lender of money is a successful promoter from Texas. But the New Deal's giver of relief is a professional giver of relief. Father Hopkins was a retail leather merchant in Sioux City and Mother Hopkins was a devout Methodist, an active member of the Iowa Home Missionary Society. Harry ("Hi"), 43, the third of their five children, takes after neither. Like his elder sister Adah (now selling insurance in Manhattan) and his elder brother (now a doctor in Tacoma), he worked...
Kerry fell madly in love with Lady Moira, who reciprocated just enough to keep him hopeful. Then one day when Kerry was down at the village, orders came from headquarters and Lady Moira was taken out and shot. Kerry went hell-for-leather to the nearest Black & Tan post, gave himself up, turned informer. He had the pleasure of seeing his oldtime pals butchered. Finally the Black & Tans tied him up in the underground factory, set a time-bomb ticking...
Parallel bars and a leather horse were all that was needed in Manhattan's Car negie Hall one night last week for two Russian dancers to show what could be done in the way of acrobatics. Time & again the boy jumped half the width of the stage, flicked his heels together, spun on one foot until the audience felt exhausted. Once the girl took a flying leap and the boy caught her by one wrist and pulled her through the air. At the end of two hours the girl was wearing a flaming red cap, the boy a cockade...
Invisible to the audience is a "bridge" above the little stage on which a row of leather-aproned Italians bend over a rail. One operator holds in his fingers the dozen fish-line strings attached to Don Juan's flexible joints. Another dangles the little peasant girl. When Don Juan crosses the stage, the steady-handed operators exchange their rack of strings with incredible dexterity. Husband & wife, father & son, these operators have been bred in the art of Italian marionet work...