Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Special Shoes. Ground Gripper Stores, Inc. and Kahler Shoe Co. sell special shoes to correct foot ills. They have consolidated with Powers Realty Trust (owner of a shoe factory at Roxbury, Mass.) as Ground Gripper Shoe Co., Inc. They have 103 retail stores in leading U. S. cities and, besides, 1,000 exclusive dealers...
...particularly inceused at finding my name on this accursed list not because I have worn my larynx down to he consistency of shoe leather but because the forgery (let us be plain, gentlemen, even if it hurts,) is a most crabbed imitation of my true signature to which I point with pride as the result of nearly forty years practice in Palmer Method...
Legends aside, the hard facts of Bat'a's career are starkly inspiring. War contracts for army boots gave him his first dip into fabulous profits. Instead of squandering or speculating with the money, he spent it on newest super-efficient shoe machinery, some of which he invented. Such intensive study of shoemaking problems led Herr Bat'a to believe that he could apply American-Ford straight line production methods to shoes-an idea then deemed mad in Europe...
...shops, from Singapore to Prague, are well primed with "House organ" facts about The Founder. They know that at the age of six he teased and teased until his shoemaker father whittled him out a tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three Bat'as founded their own small...
...Shoe Tycoon Bat'a's next two moves were characteristic, shrewd. He offered charitable relief to out-of-work hand shoemakers, on certain conditions; and the offer was indignantly refused. Then, with his fighting decks cleared, Thomas Bat'a forced an investigation of his shoes by a Committee of the out-of-works, forced them to admit and sign a statement that his shoes were leather, not paper, and finally placarded all Czechoslovakia with enlarged photostat copies of the statement...