Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrew Dennison, a Brunswick, Me. cobbler, found the shoe business heavy going. His eldest son Aaron, a Boston jeweler, suggested that he try making paper forms for jewelers' boxes. Soon this side line was giving crusty Andrew Dennison a tidy living and in 1855 he sold the enterprise to another son, Eliphalet Whorff Dennison, for $9,000. From this humble beginning eventually sprang Dennison Manufacturing Co. of Framingham, Mass., today the leading U. S. paper converter, with $10,400,000 in assets and 1938 sales of $12,528,000 from a line of 9,000 items including crepe paper...
Last week, with the annexation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia, Herr Hit ler's word proved as bad a prophet as ever. He grabbed 32,000 square miles, population of 9,250,000, new munitions (including the Skoda works), a large shoe industry, Pilsen breweries, gold reserve...
...Majesty stepped in. He refused to accept the resignations, ordered new elections on April 2 and then sat down and wrote his ministers an extraordinary letter in which he pleaded not guilty of either dictatorial ambitions or of appointing Dr. Martens. Without mincing words, the King fitted the shoe on the foot of his ministers...
...sent in his resignation to baffled superiors, moved to a Manhattan apartment, began the full-time literary career he had dreamed of. Some Like Them Short is his first book since then-a collection of 20 tight-kerneled, first-rate stories and sketches ranging from the tale of a shoe salesman to a group of sketches about German War prisoners. But only four of these stories were written in the last year. Besides these, Author March has done some work on a novel, a book of fables, enough short stories to fill another volume. To his chagrin he now discovers...
...Howard Cadle claims that in 1914 he was saved from a gambler's and drunkard's grave by his mother's prayers. Successful thereafter as an automobile salesman (they called him "Car-a-Day" Cadle), owner of a chain of shoe-repairing shops and fruit juice stands in Indianapolis, he got more pious all the time. In 1921 he built Cadle Tabernacle, a large Spanish-style building, in which he took to preaching...