Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Offend. The Herald (as many U.S. papers once did) still gets a wire at 11:30 every night, telling what the New York Times is featuring on Page One, and governs itself accordingly. Controlled by lawyers, industrialists, financiers (the law firm of Choate, Hall and Stewart, the United Shoe Machinery Corp. and Old Colony Trust Co.), the Herald is frankly sensitive to the viewpoint of the "interests," has an editorial page to match. Publisher Choate once told a newsman: "It is natural that as sound business interests own the paper, we shall reflect their point of view." But the Republican...
...subway, Vag took a last look at all the shops, the shoe-shine boys, and the Yard buildings. He pictured himself coming back here, in a few years perhaps. Growing old while this place never changed. He pictured himself slightly paunchy, standing around the punchbowl at a reunion in fifteen years. Finally, Vag broke into Harvard Square and darted across to the kiosk. He noticed the new sign, "Subway to All Points." Well, that's where he was going...
...their country "into one of the blooming corners of the Great Soviet Union." They added that since Russia "provided us with the opportunity to bypass the capitalistic path," Tannu Tuva has revised its alphabet (now modeled on the Russian), has organized state and collective farms, tractor stations, wagon works, shoe factories, and developed gold, coal and salt mines...
...only thing the tanners could do was hotfoot it for Washington. There, joined by shoe manufacturers, they clamored for 1) complete decontrol of hides and leathers, or 2) hefty price increases...
...short order, hides began to move. Within three days, offerings were 75% of normal. Then OPA granted a small (6%) price increase to certain segments of the industry (leather wholesalers, dealers, jobbers) which had not benefited by a similar increase given tanners in March. Leather, too, began to move. Shoe plants planned normal operations. Said an OPA official at week's end: "We think the problem is licked-at least temporarily...