Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present strikes in Haverhill, Newburyport, and Amesbury have reached very considerable proportions. A total of ten thousand five hundred shoe workers have walked out of the factories in protest against low wages, poor shop conditions, and non-recognition of unions. The progress of the strike so far, however, has been a forlorn revelation of Labor's impotence in the depression...
...Traveling salesmen everywhere were hard put, some of them hitchhiking when they could not buy railroad tickets. In Manhattan, a smart Rochester shoe drummer raised enough cash to get home by selling samples in a hotel lobby...
...ability is shown. The actors have little individuality. But the picture is essentially warm, mellow, and human. And it has a certain amount of homely simple humor. It ends characteristically when one of the workers, trying to emulate the example of American engineers, succeeds in spitting on his own shoe...
...foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years ago, the State is able to present current statistics showing Italy's woolen and worsted mills running at from 65% to 91% of capacity, paper mills 88%, cotton mills 70%, rayon factories 65%, boot & shoe industry 60% and chemical production...
...involved would ordinarily fall outside the scope of undergraduate interest. This would apply to any sectionalized or minute study in any field, such as the "Love-life of oysters in Chesapeake Bay" (reputedly the subject of a Ph.D. thesis in Biology,) or the legendary contribution to learning on "The Shoe-String Industry in Massachusetts." But in some fields, such as Economics and History, research on some aspects of the subject, such as recent developments in Banking or evolution of Corporations or the problem or War guilt,--research in such broad subjects would certainly contribute to tutorial work. I have found...