Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ihlamour, suburb of Constantinople on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, source of drinking water for generations has been a single deep narrow well in the market place. Housewives and porters gathered there every morning to draw water for their daily needs. There one Yusuf Hanoum, leather worker, sat down to rest last week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half...
...cell corridor of Wandsworth Gaol last week a white jacketed hospital orderly nodded pleasantly to a group of British Justices of the Peace seated uncomfortably on folding chairs. He then unpacked a stethoscope and a bottle of antiseptic from his medical case. Meanwhile, an assistant keeper had attached leather thongs to the three points of a six-foot wooden triangle, set up before an iron pillar...
...Chicago, Alexander Blackman tried to change the shape of the head of his sick daughter Helen by making her wear a thick leather helmet with adjustable chin straps...
...whereas U. S. exports to France were only $239,741,535 (cotton, oil, machinery, wheat). Of German goods the U. S. took $239,493,977 worth (iron, steel, coal tars, cinema film, toys, paper), while U. S. purchases from France were down to $160,417,371 (clothing, lingeries, perfumes, leather goods, soaps, furs, luxuries...
...long stables at the New Orleans Fair Grounds where week before last the winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...