Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose living is also made from an agricultural product began to fear not shortage but glut. This group? the tanners?have the misfortune to use as their principal raw material a commodity in which demand has no bearing whatsoever on supply. Hide production depends not on the use of shoe leather but on beef consumption. Cattle are slaughtered for meat and the hide is merely a byproduct...
...that paper-were important because its original 987 readers have grown in the last 56 years to 237,000, largest circulation in St. Louis.* Its 1934 property assessment ($1,778,230) makes it the largest single taxpayer in the city, outstripping even St. Louis' famed breweries and shoe factories. As a publishing property its value is conservatively estimated above $10,000,000. Its radio station, KSD, is profitable. Like many another newspaper's, the Post-Dispatch's profits have declined since Depression but in 1933 it paid its usual yearly bonuses to executives and editors...
...Smart, hustling American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co. and subsidiaries reported half-year profits of $658,000, up 170%, from the first six months...
Popular with his soldiers as an old shoe that has proved its worth, he got a send-off such as few commanders have rated. After the fall of Belgrade, when the army was being demobilized, Eugene rode quietly away in his dusty brown coat. Behind him his veterans raised a spontaneous ditty which soon all Austria was singing: "Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter . . ." ("Prince Eugene the noble Knight"). His career had been a success; he had shown the world. But he got no rest on his hard-won laurels. He was over 70 when for the last time...
...under the codes ... it was said it would be unspeakable for the Government to say there are enough newspapers and no more must be started. To me it is no more unthinkable than to say there are enough stores and no more must be started, that there are enough shoe factories and no more must be started...