Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast stores of energy in sunlight which man does not utilize. In his youth he was closer to earth. Fresh from Harvard with a magna cum laude (1882), he went out to western Pennsylvania to help his brother build a plant for making carbon black (used in printing ink, shoe polish, automobile tires, etc.) from natural gas.* From carbon black he made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing 60, he learned to fly a seaplane, patrolled Boston's harbor for the Naval Reserve, looking for German U-boats, spotted a whale. He also invented a mechanism...
...Endicott-Johnson, employing 20,000 shoe workers in five New York cities, announced a wage cut of 5%, atop a 10% cut last month...
...even chance to fulfill expectations. In last summer's Oxford-Cambridge meet he approached his worth when he did 4:19 behind Godfrey Brown. But Saturday was the best of all when he crossed the finish line five yards ahead of Rhode Island's Stan Holt. Northrop's right shoe came off at the beginning of the last quarter...
About eight years ago the Compañia Argentina de Alpargatas, a Buenos Aires shoe company, was lucky enough to sign up a 39-year-old artist named Florencio Molina Campos. The calendars which Artist Campos has been turning out every year for the Compañia Argentina de Alpargatas are highly prized rarities in the U. S. and may well be collectors' items when the Compañia's last shoes are worn to dust. Last week this distant reputation materialized in Manhattan in the form of an intent, sardonic, cigar-waving Latin and about 40 paintings...
...Robert Houghwout Jackson and Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, joined a defense committee for their fellow-member of the liberal National Lawyers Guild, C.I.O. Attorney Edward Lamb of Toledo. Mr. Lamb faces disbarment proceedings because of allegedly unprofessional remarks in court in opposing an injunction against the United Shoe Workers of America. According to the committee: "Mr. Lamb's remarks may call for an expression of apology to the court. They must not be made the excuse for an attempt to invade fundamental liberties...