Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason Bill Nassaur sells so many people is that he has thoroughly sold himself. His own favorite essence is "Cuir de Russe" (Russian leather). He likes to sprinkle it on his handkerchief and under his arms...
...Lean and leather-tough Joe Burke has spent 40-odd years hunting gold. As a $250-a-month prospector (employed by Toronto's Rush Lake and Berwick Mining Companies), he was in the Mackeith Lake country last June with a young Indian helper named Maynard Bromley. One hot day they worked their way through the virgin timberland around the lake, scrambling over fallen firs and through heavy underbrush. Ahead they saw a mound heavily covered with northern moss...
...went to Russia at Government invitation to investigate the status of its 2,000,000 Baptists. For the visit the Russians rolled out the Red carpet. The visitor had two nice visits with onetime seminarian Joseph Stalin, to whom he gave a leather-bound copy of the New Testament and two pipes. He also got permission to preach hellfire-&-damnation sermons in churches in nine cities, from Moscow to Stalingrad. Before he was through, his hosts had even persuaded the alcohol-hating Baptist to try a sip of vodka. (His judgment: "It tasted like kerosene mixed with stump water...
...short order, hides began to move. Within three days, offerings were 75% of normal. Then OPA granted a small (6%) price increase to certain segments of the industry (leather wholesalers, dealers, jobbers) which had not benefited by a similar increase given tanners in March. Leather, too, began to move. Shoe plants planned normal operations. Said an OPA official at week's end: "We think the problem is licked-at least temporarily...
...match prices still under control to the new formulas written by Congress. The slide-rule answers nearly always meant that prices went up a little bit here, a little more there. On a few typical days last week OPA hiked ceilings on autos (7%), cotton textiles (7%), kid leather (30%), sofas (6%), hot-water bottles (10%), oilcloth (13½%), enamel kitchen utensils (5%). Off went ceilings on window washing, contract janitorial service, sour cherries and imported food specialties...