Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M.P.s efficiently rounded up 150 soldiers, began loading them into a bus. Then a single shot turned the row into a riot. Negro Soldiers and M.P.s, a few white officers and men and some city cops joined in. Chunky Arizona Republic Reporter Gene McLain had part of his shoe sole shot off. Bullets smashed windowpanes, whined off the pavement. There was a general running to cover. A private was left dead in the street; half a dozen men were wounded...
...torn by the Aussies as they crashed through. All about were black, well-made "Jerry cans" (for fuel), a dozen of which we collected and filled with water when we learned that the Nazis had oiled many of the wells farther west. Old tins of British-made "Kiwi" shoe polish lay side by side with empty bottles of Chianti. Pressed into the sand was a letter to a German soldier from his father in Düsseldorf...
...Heavy Foot. At 52, Eddie Rickenbacker (ne Richenbacher) had, almost better than any other American, spanned the gap from youthful hero to solid citizen, from daring combat flyer to successful businessman. Young Eddie went to work at twelve in Columbus, Ohio: glass works, brewery, steel mill, monument works, shoe factory, bicycle shop. The shop was also an automobile garage. Eddie learned to drive, moved on to an auto factory, studied engineering via the International Correspondence School. It was speed that interested him. At 20, known on all racing tracks as a man "with a heavy foot," he cleaned...
...Angeles' Beachwood Theater Studio holds 73 people. By last week it was shoe-horning in 85 every night-most of them Hollywood's great. Its unpaid, unprofessional performers had a thundering hit on their hands, a vivid war play called Cry Havoc which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has snagged for $10,000 and the Shuberts have snatched for Broadway...
...news: although bowling has been encouraged by the Government's Physical Fitness program, priorities may soon knock the pins from under it. Because the wooden blocks used for the manufacture of bowling pins are the same size as those used for shoe lasts, much of the wood formerly earmarked for the bowling industry is now going to Army & Navy shoemakers-both at home and abroad. U.S. bowlers can count on pins for only a twelvemonth...