Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petroleum last April was an indication of what might happen. While hogs had re-actecLfrom their highs of late June (TIME, July 11), last week they made up much of the loss. After hogs, cattle began to go up; then hides soared, spurred by the stepping up of shoe production. Then wheat suddenly responded to hot, dry weather in Canada and the U. S. Northwest, to reports of shortages abroad, to the apparent decision of many farmers to hold their wheat for better prices. Last week September wheat (new contracts) sold at 50 3/4 ? against the July...
...year for his home, other sums for entertaining. To people who know Sir Henry there was nothing startling in these disclosures. He is a large, jovial man of 60 who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs nearly 16 stone (220 lb.), wears a Size 8 hat, Size 12 shoe. He likes caviar at least once a day, has a fondness for oysters, small pickled onions and other things he knows are not good for him. He is frank and forward, likes to work as hard as he lives. His ebullience and flair for speechmaking have made more than one tycoon...
When he was 18 in California "John Martin" fell in love with a girl several years his senior. She married someone else. To visitors at his office he exhibits a baby's shoe which he keeps on the top shelf of a book case. It belonged to the California girl's firstborn. Some 25 years ago (he does not remember exactly when) he married Mary Elliott Putnam. They have no children. His wife does not share his enthusiasm for them. Also, he says, having children of his own might destroy, by "paternal poisoning," his interest in all children...
Raising his hand high at last Jan Bat'a took a solemn vow "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages...
...executive committee by his attorney, the late Judge Robert Scott Lovett, who soon devised a plan of regional management for sprawling Southern Pacific. In 1913 Union Pacific was forced to sell its stock control in Southern Pacific, but S. P. maintained the regional plan. Last week these two great shoes of the late great Harriman were shuffled. Southern Pacific, the left shoe, was returned from regional management to one-man control under tall, taciturn Hale Holden. Union Pacific, the right shoe, was given over to the late great Harriman's son, William Averell Harri man, now 40 and ready...