Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoe fall where...
...depends on where the shoe is going, and what pot's being filled...
Last week things got out of hand in his office. Two more corporate safes were on their way to him. Busy rearranging his office to squeeze them in, he was thinking of moving to new quarters. The newcomers: big United Shoe Machinery Corp. (assets: $124,468,000), formerly of Paterson, and Montana Power Co. (assets: $152,093,000), formerly of Newark. What their arrival would do to the dwindling property tax rate (now 81?; town 8?) Flemingtonians could only guess. Maybe the town tax would melt away altogether. Busily turning their new-found tax savings into fresh coats of paint...
...citizens generally were surprised to hear of a still darker horse for 1940, little-known Francis Parnell Murphy, Governor of New Hampshire, latest GOP-Hopeful. Tax-cutting, budget-slashing Governor Murphy, Irish, Catholic, balding, is part owner of an eight-factory shoe company which makes 43,000 pairs of shoes daily, has long watched with interest the 1940 efforts of his predecessor, now Senator, GOP-Hopeful Henry Styles Bridges...
Obscure were the origins of Breeze Corps., excellent its connections. Created in 1926 by Super-Salesman Joseph J. Mascuch (rhymes with "shoe"), who was formerly in the bumper business. Breeze established itself in Washington as an accepted supplier of aircraft parts to the Government (sales, 1927: $136,805; first nine months of 1938: $2,200,065). Adaptable and efficient, it succeeded also in getting an order for 12,000,000 lbs. of equipment for the stacks of the U. S. Government's Archives Building...