Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Footnote. In Pocatello, Idaho, postal authorities mulled over the weight ceiling which forbade mailing his new size 15 brogans to Marine Pfc. Lawrence I. Hanson, somewhere in the Pacific (TIME, April 24). Wrote an impatient woman: "Did you ever think of sending each shoe in a separate parcel...
...Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Company set up a "52-pay-checks-each-year" plan at small expense. It has been handsomely repaid in increased worker efficiency. It now boasts that its 900 workers covered by the plan are shoe indus try's highest paid. Estimated income (excluding supervisors) last year...
...metal foot protector that fits over the shoe and prevents toes from being smashed by falling objects or careless steppers...
Thomas Alva Edison's edifying and profitable kinetoscope celebrated a quiet, wartime soth anniversary with a national day's box office of about $3,000,000. Its first box office, in a converted Broadway shoe store, on the Saturday evening of April 14, 1894, sold $120 worth of admissions. Since then the movies have developed in many directions. Last week's sourest note in the movie business was struck when...
...American Antique. Saltonstall's political charm is that he strikes people as old shoe rather than old tie. His engagingly homely face is his No. 1 political asset, with its drooping eyelids, lean cheeks, long nose, wide-spaced teeth, and the famed "cowcatcher chin." That reassuring face has been termed "a well-worn American antique" and "the most distinctive face in U.S. public life." Deviousness would have a hard time finding a hiding place there. It is a face New Englanders trust...