Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massey's barbershop at 3306 Main Street, Kansas City, a big, muscular man, generously daubed with powder and witch hazel, eased himself out of a barber's chair. He had just had a haircut, shave, shampoo, scalp massage and shoe shine-"the works." Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut. But last week his pay envelope held $140, and he now frankly enjoyed these little male luxuries-everything except a manicure...
...agents found that there were plans to unload, on the unsuspicious and in expert, some 5,120,000 gasoline ration "A" stamps, representing 15,360,000 gallons, and 1,560,000 shoe coupons, representing as many pairs of shoes. They arrested the printing shop proprietors, naturalized, Russian-born Harry Dubitsky, and naturalized, Austrian-born Max Spiegel, who had tangled with the law once before (1926) as a printer of indecent literature...
...spring of 1942 Mrs. Mina Curtiss was in Iowa, conducting a radio program and driving around the state to find out how the families of soldiers & sailors felt about the war. When she read a shoe-box full of letters a soldier had written his mother, she "decided that there were neighbors all over the United States who not only would want to read letters from their own sons and husbands but who would be hungry, as I was, for every bit of firsthand information they could get about the lives of our men overseas." From all over...
Superficially she resembles an open shoe box, although she is highly complicated. Quarters for five officers and 48 men, plus space for 50 passengers (e.g., tank crewmen), besides stowage space and lockers are all in narrow hives in her high sides. In between is her big open well, where she will carry tanks and trucks. For protection she mounts 20-mm. antiaircraft guns...
Last week, after 72 hours of such pounding, Sevastopol fell. Into Russian hands fell a vast booty, from shoe polish to crated bombers. Nearly 25,000 more prisoners went behind the barbed wire, to join 37,000 taken elsewhere in the Crimea (some 50,000 others were killed). In the harbor, Red engineers got to work. Soon...