Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...takes 100 tin cans a year to maintain the average U. S. family-about 60 for food and about 40 more for oil, shoe polish, paint, etc., off & on throughout the year. Since cans, once opened, are of little further use, that means the U. S. consumes 12,000,000,000 cans annually. Tin cans, as all the world knows, are not made from tin but from tin plate which is 98½% steel with 1½% coating of tin. Last year the can makers used more steel than any other industry except the automobile, absorbing one-eighth...
...label on an $800 blue fox scarf to signalize the codification of the fur industry when the story broke that her brother-in-law had a $6,800 NRA job in Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics, NRA headquarters began to buzz with rumors of nepotism...
...another scene Emilie gets an olive-oil bath, accepts her underwear and dress silently as she looks with shoe-button eyes into the camera. Last sight of the quintuplets in this first section of their cinema biography shows them being popped into their incubators which resemble a row of chicken coops...
...purposes of a corporate marriage Hudson can offer an established low-price model, Terraplane. Hudson also has Roy Dikeman Chapin (54), one of its founders, and one of the Industry's few shoe-string pioneers who are still relatively young. Roy Chapin did not look so young after serving a half-year as Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce but since he returned to Detroit he has slowed Hudson's headlong flight into...
...when the Government started to slaughter 200,000 half-starved cattle every week, the tanners raised a terrific howl. And they had a reason: in two months the price of hides had plunged from 9¢ per Ib. to 6¢, seriously threatening the tanning industry. (Shoe prices fall with falling leather prices...