Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen who spent his airplane ticket #1 early last fall and is now down at heel can count upon his toes his chances of going barefoot. For the OPA's intent to keep shoe rationing "at about the current level" meant the civilian would get not more than two pairs of leather shoes a year. (In 1941 he used 3.7 pairs, and almost that much last year...
Last week G-Man J. Edgar Hoover himself added a lurid footnote to the shoe shortage: shoes, he said, were the third biggest item in a mounting flood of hijacking. (The first two: liquor and rayon...
Sober speakers at last week's National Shoe Retailers Association's annual meeting in Manhattan gave the reason for the new crime wave. Said Tanners' Council Vice President Merrill A. Watson: "World leather supplies . . . can be covered by one word. That word is 'scarce.' " The facts about that scarcity...
...military, though it takes only 10% of total shoe production, will now take 30% of the sole-leather supply, 40% of the cattle side upper leather. Reason: the Army's new high-cuff boot, now specified for soldiers in combat areas, takes three and a half times as much leather as an ordinary men's "dress" shoe. The Navy is now consuming 28% of all calf leather. Civilians this year will get 18% less leather...
...Like nearly all Rio de Janeiro's carnival songs, Eu Brinco was conceived by one of the thousands of amateur song writers who drive Rio's taxis, run its elevators, sweep its streets and constitute a sizable portion of its population. Pedro Caetano happens to be a shoe-store clerk. Swarthy Pedro, with slant eyes and a cavernous mouth, cannot read music. He claims that he cannot even play the Brazilian song writer's traditional instrument: an empty matchbox with which the rhythms are tapped on cafe tables. But he has been inventing carnival songs ever since...