Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were contributing reasons. The United Mine Workers' hodge-podge District 50, which tries to organize everybody from shoe clerks to clam diggers, had roused A.F.L. leaders' bitter complaints that it was poaching in their fields. Now Lewis was free to pour into District 50 the $200,000-plus which U.M.W. has been paying yearly to the A.F.L. treasury. In District 50, headed by John's 58-year-old brother, Denny, the' Great Man had a juggernaut to propel, if he chose, toward a third major labor organization...
Making the Deal. While completing his project, Lamb drove some shrewd real estate bargains. Ten stores-among them branches of F. W. Woolworth, Edison Brothers Shoe Shops and Owl Drug Co.-subleased some of his spare land at $2,000 a front foot. Lamb was not afraid of the competition as long as it helped to pay the cost of his store...
...Amish of Wayne, Holmes and Tuscarawas Counties, Ohio, are among the ' plainest of the picture-book Plain People. Their men wear buttonless dark blue overalls and jackets, wide-brimmed black hats and beards. Their women go in bonnets and shoe-length black dresses. With fierce rectitude, they forbid themselves automobiles, electricity, telephones and tractors, rather than engender the sin of pride...
Angered by these tactics, J. O. Moore, president of the National Association of Shoe Chain Stores, said: "It is difficult for shoe chains to extend general sympathy to all requests for increases based on so-called replacement pricing. An examination of financial statements of certain segments of the industry employing replacement pricing shows that lavish reserves have been provided to cushion the same firms against prices on the downgrade...
...rain started drifting down into soldiers Field even before the game's first kickoff caromed off the side of guard Emil Drvaric's shoe to be smothered by a Tiger forward operative 55 yards away from his objective. Halfway through the first quarter, the precipitation lost its casual demean, as did the Tiger pack...