Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same reason was a man who was trying to hide a watermelon under his shirt but having some difficulty, because he was already loaded with a jar of cheese spread, several ears of corn, two jars of skin lotion, some parts for an automobile brake, a can of shoe polish, a dill pickle, and a rearview mirror...
...problem. I'm the mother, sister, companion, nursemaid, sparring partner and wife of a jazz clarinet. Should I continue to live with this sink of iniquity and listen to his lousy rendition of Baby, Won't You Please etc. or should I divorce him, marry a shoe salesman or magazine writer, and listen to Sweet Adeline...
...efforts to obtain sundry favors over the long-term trend, by certain means familiar to us all, that's out. Because no-one, spelled nobody will be retained aboard the SS. Harvard from among us, and chances look swell for 99.44/100 percent sea duty, so there. (If the shoe fits, tear out Number 18 coupon). However, we will be given an opportunity to any where we'd like to spend the next six years (see Department release of Wednesday morning...
...Shofner, 43, only steelwoman on the West Coast, has had little time for ordinary partygoing. Married in 1919, she took over her husband's railroad brake-shoe foundry at Linnton, Ore. when he died four years later. Mrs. Shofner did not like the cut of the brake shoe, patented a better one, sold her tidy little business for $200,000 in 1937. She bought a first-class ticket to Europe, but soon found she was less interested in cathedrals and art galleries than in the sooty, sprawling plants of the Ruhr, of Milan. She fell in love with steel...
...worth of munitions and pyrotechnic devices yearly. The biggest fireworks manufacturer, Un excelled Manufacturing Co., reported a gross profit of $900,000 (net $188,000) for last year, compared to a 1939 deficit of $44,000. But normally much pyro technic-making is done by small shoe string operators, and they are getting their cut of war work...