Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat Hitler. It won't even keep Hitler from beating everybody else. . . . At the very least that production volume must be doubled." He urged them to take more initiative in seeking contracts and supplies; before running to Washington, "go out and wear out a little shoe leather...
...Coquitlam, B.C., one Henry Steen felt something sticky on the sole of his shoe, bent down to scrape it off, unstuck a $100 bill...
...George Washington Carver, who hobbles benignly about Tuskegee's campus, is an artist. But he is better known as the greatest Negro scientist alive, the man who pioneered new uses for Southern agricultural products, developed 285 new uses for the peanut, got 118 products, including vinegar, molasses and shoe blacking, from the South's surplus sweet potatoes. In his laboratory he and his assistants also make paints and dyes from the red Alabama clay, the oil of the Alabama peanut, with which he paints the natural phenomena he sees around him: birds, fruit, flowers, mountain vistas...
...throughout) is apparently the reading room of a public library. But it is obviously not quite an ordinary reading room. In a revolving door a shawled figure treads slowly round & round; the pretty librarian reclines on a couch; one of the readers wears a small coffin as a shoe (he has one foot in the grave) ; another is gloomily reading Joyce's Ulysses for the third time. Nobody is at all surprised when a Negro, uniformed like a doorman and blowing a bugle, heralds the approach of Mr. Jim Dandy-a fat man with no visible means of support...
Alcoa plans to sell 1,000,000 Ib. of aluminum yearly for shoe eyelets; more in typewriter parts, hair curlers, license plates...