Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Russian delegate in San Francisco was the Red Navy's representative, Admiral Konstantin Rodionov (see cut). The Russians holed up in the St. Francis hotel, reveled in three eggs apiece for breakfast, promptly obtained 18 shoe stamps (for some 60 delegates and consultants). A Russian ship brought quantities of caviar, vodka and champagne to be dispensed in a Pacific Heights house rented for entertainment. For the delegation's head, Foreign Commissar Molotov, the State Department had been asked to supply 1) a bullet-proof car, 2) an armed escort...
Tokens of Affection. In Milwaukee, a woman clerk at a local ration board was found to have handed out to her friends, since Christmas, 50,000 blue points, 50,000 red points, coupons for 3,500 lbs. of sugar and an undetermined number of shoe coupons...
...hour. But many workers chose R.M.R. over other plants paying the same wages because "the gossip is better." High-school girls work next to soldiers on pass from Truax Field. Said one businessman: "Here's me so soft I get out of breath tying my own shoe laces. So I'm tossing 75-lb. boxes around. I look down the aisle, and there's one of my biggest, toughest employes working with an eye dropper...
...Chicago last week the shoe was on the other foot: the Jackson Park Hospital refused to admit a patient of an A.M.A. doctor who had been a member of the staff for 17 years. The patient, one Toyoko Murayama, though born in the U.S., was of Japanese blood. Explained Superintendent Lucius W. Hilton: "Some of our patients might object to such close bed contact to a Japanese. . . . This is a private hospital and we have absolute power over who we take...
...welding light-gauge aluminum, "of particular importance since aluminum lifeboats and rafts are currently of riveted construction due to lack of a satisfactory method of welding." ¶A chemical fire extinguisher, which, when used around electrical equipment, will not generate phosgene or other poisonous gases. ¶A "non-slipping" shoe sole, "which will give good footing on an oily, steel deck of a ship rolling as much...