Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dull days of post-War recovery, Cristobal goes to work on four English bankers who stole his father's copper mine, ruins them separately with deliberately prolonged, sadistic finesse. Tuning up for the last revenge, on capitalism, Cristobal begins by short-selling the world's best shoe and smelting stock in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, utilities in honor of Tom Mooney, and so on through all the martyrs of radicalism. Meanwhile he has married a poor, tuberculous girl, returned to Spain to finance an uprising. A hero in the first days of the Spanish Civil War, Cristobal...
...William Lee Collins liked the looks of the shoe business. His father was foreman in a shoe factory and St. Louis was a shoe town. So Willie Collins left school after the eighth grade and went to work for International Shoe Co., neatly inking the edges of soles for $3 a week. Last week, at 36, as he settled down to his new job as president of Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., oldest in the Middle West, the shoe business still looked good...
When Hamilton-Brown was in its heyday 20 years ago, Willie Collins was inking leather and going to night school. In one factory and another, he later became assistant foreman, superintendent. Five years ago, while Hamilton-Brown was enjoying a brief respite between losses. Shoemaker Collins took a shoe string of $1,500 which he had saved, and with a young shoe designer named Edward W. Morris, founded Collins-Morris Shoe Co. at Marine, Mo. (capacity: 400 pairs of children's shoes a day). Six weeks later, with a bank balance of $22 and a $300 payroll to meet...
World's largest producers of children's "compo" (cemented) shoes, Collins-Morris will be operated separately from Hamilton-Brown's factories, which turn out men's and women's shoes. Dapper President Collins last week predicted its plants would reach capacity production. at which time there would be only two larger shoe companies in the U. S.: Endicott Johnson Corp. and International...
...year, Philadelphia Author John T. McIntyre wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...