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Word: shoeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoe rationing is not in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOES: No End to Rationing | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...leather goods during the last half of 1944 than during the first half. And the leather supply is getting tighter: this year the U.S. will have only between 23 million and 24 million hides for both civilians and armed forces, as against 19 million in 1939 for civilians alone. Shoe rationing may continue long after the end of the German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOES: No End to Rationing | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...those of youthful inexperience. But a box of Milky Way candy bars [consolation prize] to that lady!" A correct answer stirs the Doctor to the joyful cry: "Pay that lady 15 silver dollars!" One night he innocently asked a man to tell him the principal use of cowhide, expecting "shoe leather" for an answer. Said the contestant: "To keep the cow from falling apart." The nameless hero took the audience's heart and a pocketful of silver dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Doctor I. Q. | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...been eating point-free this summer. This time OPA plans to market the entire pack. Sugar rationing will get no lighter, as supplies are 25% below 1941. Probably used cars will be rationed by year's end, clothes will not. Shoemen fear an end to shoe rationing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Score | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Stinky, on the screen, becomes Pinky (Ted Donaldson), a plump little boy who, for all his talents, looks too much like a child actor. Curley does all his workouts in a shoe box, and though dozens of his screen colleagues watch him constantly, the tantalized audience never gets a gander. The agent (Cary Grant) is no pathetic shoe-stringer. He is a dapper Broadway impresario in danger of losing his theater. When he loses it, Cary is solaced by meeting Pinky's lush sister (Janet Blair). His slit-pussed sidekick (James Gleason), is perhaps the best member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 24, 1944 | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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