Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tramp, tramp, tramp 150 Saxon theological students marched into town, brown uniformed and carrying complete Army equipment, even campaign knapsacks. Wags called them "God's New Storm Troops." Newly enrolled, they had been sent by onetime Corporal Adolf Hitler as a guard of honor for his leather-lunged friend, onetime Army Chaplain Ludwig Müller. recently elected Evangelical Bishop of the State of Prussia (TIME, Aug. 21). Last week Dr. Müller was about to mold what amounted to a new German Evangelical Church. He wanted no trouble, no backsliding at the last moment by conscience-stricken...
...corn-refining industry. Arthur Dehon Little, Cambridge industrial chemist, is already experimenting. Zein resembles cellulose and cellulose derivatives in certain ways. It can be mixed with them, as in plastics. It resists water, decay and flames, has advantages as an adhesive, in sizing paper and textiles, and in finishing leather. Chemist Morris Omansky, Boston consultant, reports zein useful as a reinforcing compound for rubber manufacture, arid Dr. Barnard thinks the protein substance might be turned into artificial silk...
...chum of ground-up mackerel and mossbunker, bait a huge swordfish hook with a whole mackerel, and sit down to wait. He was eating a sandwich when "the tuna hit like an earthquake and then started out to sea like a torpedo." Fisherman Low braced himself in his leather harness for a fight that, was to last five hours, while his captain quickly hoisted anchor to let the fish tow the skiff around the ocean. For a mile he went out to sea, then turned and ran back, staying mostly on the surface. After an hour and one-half...
...Forest, Ill. talked of nothing but polo last week and eight thick-wristed, sunburned guests-of-honor had lots to say to each other when they met. Week before, the four best players that swanky Eastern polo could produce had been ridden groggy by a hard-hitting, hell-for-leather Western four, beaten in the first of three games, 15 to 11 (TIME, Aug. 21). Since he became a 10-goal player in 1922 the East's Captain Thomas Hitchcock had never been challenged on a field as the West's Cecil Smith had challenged him last fortnight...
...cloth for their uniforms he cut from the backs of fellow-prisoners. From his guards he bought tin for the tiny swords which could be drawn from the scabbards, for the bayonets which could be fixed, fur and hair for the headgear which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers...