Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Means Rubber. Rubber was inexpressibly precious. Citizens racked their brains for makeshifts: in New Jersey, Postman Charles Kaiser used dime-store shoe soles as recaps, got 1,200 miles from them (see cut). The Army had already begun shifting from rubber tank treads to steel treads, which are not as good, but replaceable. Drastic steps were necessary, and would certainly be invoked-such as commandeering tire stockpiles, the requisition of civilian cars, a further abandonment of duplicating bus lines...
BLOOD ON HER SHOE-Medora Field -Macmillan ($2). An ill-advised nocturnal tour of a spooky old Georgia church yard ends with a house-party guest stabbed to death. The well-hidden killer almost eliminates the lively young Georgia girl who tells the story and helps the local police chief unravel the crimes. Constant action, intricate plot and much lively chatter...
...four short stores are on a par with Norman Mailer's "Right Shoe On Left Foot," a powerful and tant story of the eternal clash between blacks and whites in the South. Mailer has the intensely realistic style of a James T. Farrell; he has perfected this technique and keeps perfect control over his subject matter. Least, successful of the stories, perhaps, is "The Bridge," by Robert Lowry, a conscious attempt at oversimplification that strives too much for this effect. Douglas Woolf handles his more familiar theme of tough children shop-lifting with ease and restraint. A too apparent theme...
...trend is to live as close to offices and factories as possible, to save on tires, gas, shoe leather...
...Shoe Shine, Mister? Like a crazed animal, the Jap had purged himself after a savage campaign in Nanking's 1937 blood bath. But, whatever fears gnawed at hearts in U.S. homes last week, there was no confirmed evidence that the rape of Nanking had been repeated, not even at Hong Kong, where the British wrathfully protested Jap atrocities. A few cases of rape were reported there, and British troopers were said to have been put to work shining shoes. But, on the whole, what happens before complete order is restored in a captured city is often better left unsaid...