Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Leon Henderson headed the Office of Price Administration, he fought hard against sprung rationing-rationing of a single commodity announced overnight without suitable preparation of the public. Last week, as buyers smarting under the sudden shoe rationing order rushed to buy clothes for fear of an unexpected new order by the Government, the wisdom of Leon Henderson's position became apparent...
...example, cannot take up more than six square inches. A picture of a box of tea is permitted, but not a picture of a group of women enjoying tea. In mailorder catalogues either a front or back view of a coat may be pictured, but not both; only one shoe can be shown, not a pair. Only when it is necessary (such as in a suit or hat advertisement) can a picture of a human figure be used...
There were and still are other sources of friction, dangerous as a bare nail in a shoe. General Bissell is by report an able soldier who respects the rulebooks and goes by them. Chennault is an able soldier who has no use for "the book." Result is constant friction. It is increased by the fact that his supply of planes (of which he hopes to have a maximum 500) comes through Bissell's India command...
...life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into the laboratory and God tells me what...
Attached: The household furnishings left behind in Manhattan, Kans., by Private Pasquale di Cicco and his million-heiress wife, the ex-Gloria Vanderbilt. A grocer, an ex-chauffeur, two furniture-craters and a shoe merchant charged the di Ciccos left a mess of bills when they moved to New jersey last month. (They move to Texas next.) The grocer wants $62, the craters $113, the shoe merchant $10, and the ex-chauffeur $90. If a sheriff's sale is authorized, local natives will have a chance to pick up a bronze bust of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt...