Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister's office, a cool room with blue leather and a blue rug, a couple of etchings and a map, Jack Curtin affects a huge uncluttered desk. A reserved man, shunning formal gatherings, he nevertheless likes to cock one foot on the desk and talk at length. He smokes incessantly-through a bamboo holder-and drinks tea without pause. He has good relations with the press (still sports his Australian Journalists Association emblem on his watch chain) and is a master at handling irate delegations. Recently a party went up from Sydney, determined to have a showdown...
Slosson, a thin little man, sharply blue-eyed, appropriately billiard-bald, plays with a cue he bought for 50? in Louisville in 1874. He figures it has been re-tipped at least 500 times and had perhaps 40 leather covers on its butt. With it he won the straight-rail world championship from Maurice Daly in 1877, the Champions Game title from Maurice Vigneaux in 1882, the cushion-caroms title in 1884, the 14.2 balkline championship in 1887, the 18.1 balkline title from Jacob ("Wizard") Schaefer in 1888, the 18.2 balkline title from Willie Hoppe...
...Long after the collapse of Germany, leather will probably be scarce: even the minimum Lend-Lease and UNRRA needs will sop up most of the expected drop in military demand. In 1943, long before much "rehabilitation" was militarily feasible, the Army shipped almost 9,000,000 pairs of shoes for Lend-Lease account...
That left a mere 300,000,000 pairs of leather shoes-about half for women, one-quarter each for men and for children and adolescents (OPA and the shoemakers long ago began counting on men to provide women & children with extra coupons). Shoe stocks are now down to 200,000,000 pairs, a dangerous...
Less Chichi. Nonetheless, most of the chichi left in shoes is in ersatz materials-a red fabric rose or composition cherries at the toe of a plain leather pump, multicolored raffia beach sandals, bright wooden clogs, etc. The only frivolous style note in 1944 women's shoes is the high ankle strap (see cut, p. 82). The real style is the "classic" day shoe that can go anywhere and keep going...