Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STARS LOOK DOWN?A. J. Cronin ?Little, Brown ($2.50). HORSE SHOE BOTTOMS?Tom Tippett?Harper...
...Both books are packed with information on the technical details of coal mining, discussions of blackdamp, underground floods, explosions, entombments, but the picture that results is scarcely calculated to fill the patriots of either country with pride. The bitterness of Tom Tippett's account of Illinois disasters, in Horse Shoe Bottoms, is matched by the bitterness of Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin's account of similar disasters beneath the seas of England...
...comparison with The Stars Look Down, Horse Shoe Bottoms is plain and unadorned. John Stafford and his wife Ellen were brought from England to the Bottoms when Old Bill Wantling found coal there and needed skilled English miners to get it out. As long as Old Bill had control, in the last quarter of the 19th Century, the miners endured their hardships stoically, for Old Bill always listened to their complaints even when he could do nothing about them. But when the business expanded and a hard young upstart named Don Simpson, who knew a lot about business but nothing...
...Silverton, Ore., ladies of the local country club played a strip golf tournament, one garment for each hole. Unlucky Mrs. Ralph Bilyeu left the course first, reduced to a shoe and a piece of lingerie. Mrs. J. Werle who stepped to the first tee wearing six petticoats, pantaloons and a hoop skirt, won with the loss of only three petticoats...
...trade fame now rests on pulps. In 1924 its research chemist developed a highly-purified cellulose fibre used in the manufacture of yarns, fabrics, absorbents, fine papers and innumerable plastic products ranging from lighting fixtures to poker chips. The company itself manufactures finished products like yarns, conduits, shoe linings. A leader in forestry and reforestation, Brown Co. abandoned the last of its original lumber business...