Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...served on silver salvers in a paneled, specially heated room. Fuel Minister Emanuel Shin-well issued an immediate denial, announced plans for a simple ceremony in the un-paneled, unheated Ministry headquarters, which cannot hold more than 50 people. A single toast would be proposed while Shinwell presented a leather-bound copy of the Coal Industry Nationalization Act to plump, pink Lord Hyndley (rhymes with kindly), who will run the mines as National Coal Board Chairman. Afterward Lord Hyndley, 63, would climb to the roof of his Berkeley Square office building and hoist the Coal Board's new flag...
...Paris press took up the cry, pointed out that the chiffoniers collect on an average each day 400 tons of paper, 200 tons of rags and 50 tons of leather, rubber, bones, iron, tin. copper and lead...
...their paneled board room on the 13th floor of Los Angeles' Pacific Finance Building, the directors of California's Consolidated Steel Corp. gathered last week. After they had settled themselves in their cushioned leather chairs, President Alden Gallup Roach brought up routine business; a 25? common dividend was declared...
Judge Goldsborough wiped his glasses, hooked them back on his nose, rocked ruminatively back & forth on his red-leather chair. Then he ruled that Lewis and the United Mine Workers, notwithstanding, were in contempt of court. Lewis would return the next day, the judge ordered, to receive his sentence...
...payoff would come in expanding German exports of china and ceramics, of optical goods, leather goods, pharmaceuticals, and, of course, coal. To make some of these exports possible, the Joint German Economics Committee would have to import petroleum products, crude rubber, lead, hides, wool and cotton...