Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holds, for poorly cooked chow, and many a G.I. who had heard of Krueger as a tough, tyrannical ogre has been better fed after a Krueger visit to the company mess. If he sees a G.I. limping, Krueger wants to know why. If the trouble is a misfit shoe, the man's officer is rebuked for not having seen to it that his men were properly outfitted...
...dark, thunderous subway tunnels under Manhattan's Time Square one afternoon last week, a trackwalker was startled by the sight of a small boy lashed by wire to a steel stanchion. His hands and feet were bound, his mouth was stuffed with a gag, and his right shoe and stocking were off. He was moaning and tossing his tousled blond head...
...rewards go to housewives who hoard the most food and squander the most stamps? Many a citizen, mindful of what happened to his red and blue stamps, began to look suspiciously at airplane stamps 1, 2 and 3, wondered if they should be spent at once on shoes -which will hereafter be rationed at less than two pairs a year. OPA hurriedly promised that current shoe stamps would remain valid...
...warned that a revised shoe-rationing system is coming up, since there is not enough leather to let everyone have two new pairs of shoes...
...care of their feet, even in battle. Men are learning to dry their socks on bushes or in their jackets or helmets. In some forward areas, dry socks are issued along with rations. Now improved boots are on the way. They are the Quartermaster Corps' new calf-high shoe-pacs, synthetic rubber up to normal shoe height and leather the rest of the way, designed to be worn with two pairs of heavy socks. Production began in August and a few shoe-pacs have already been issued to the troops fighting under the worst conditions...