Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoes. With demand up to 500,000,000 (40% above prewar) and dealers' stocks substantially below normal, "shoe rationing may have to be continued until some time after...
What This Country Needs. The Office of Price Administration announced that rationed shoe stocks had dropped 25% (from almost 200 million to less than 151 million pairs) during...
...during the U.S. Revolutionary War, a British soldier named Duncan McColl was sent on a mission that took him in plain view of sharpshooting Yan kees. Their musket balls shredded his clothing, tore off his cap and the heel of one shoe. At last their officer, awed by the sight, gave the order to cease firing...
Reserve Officer Vardaman, 50-year-old son of the late rabble-rousing Senator James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, is a St. Louis lawyer, banker and shoe manufacturer (Vardaman Shoe Co.). He was also commander of Battery A, 335th Field Artillery, A.E.F. For onetime Artilleryman Harry Truman, that was a recommendation...
Mush! In Baltimore, a Snow Shoe (Pa.) boy married a Drifting (Pa.) girl...