Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ablest interpreter of intricate New Deal theories of spending, lending, taxation, Henry Wallace held forth on these matters while the crowd grew slowly from four to 40. Shy but resolute, he fixed his blue eyes on the ground as he talked, sometimes scuffed the dirt away with his shoe. Presently one listener spoke up: "The trouble is, there's no limit to this spending." Henry Wallace replied that when private capital does not flow Government funds must be expended. An elderly man suggested that interest rates had been pounded down, while taxes increased, thus injuring men of property. Fair...
Fleet Street's newspaper row got its share one night. The Herald, which was bombed by a Zeppelin in World War I, was hit again. Minister for Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook's Standard, in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street, was flooded when a tank on its roof burst. Next morning the Standard carried a David Low cartoon showing Goring and Goebbels peddling a newspaper called Der Berlin Liar with headlines: "British Press Wiped Out"-and regarding with pained surprise a Cockney newsboy hawking: "Bomb severely damaged in Shoe Lane...
...first the Germans did not like canned salmon, said it looked like tan shoe polish. I cruised the American occupied area, suggested to the local grocerymen that they put a can of salmon on the counter with some crackers, ask the customers to sample it, tell them of the fat content. Salmon went well after that...
...Sufferers from athlete's foot often have to throw out all their shoes, because they are breeding spots for the offending fungus. Last week Bernard Soep, a Boston industrial designer, demonstrated a new shoe sterilizer-an inexpensive ultraviolet bulb that can be plugged into an ordinary light socket, inserted into a shoe...
...Chicago, after 100 touring children had departed from their hotel, the tour director mailed back a package. Contents: eleven spoons, five salad forks, one silver tray, two napkins, 17 washcloths, 22 bath towels, 58 small ash trays, three large ash trays, two water glasses, nine hotel signs, 24 shoe bags, one table knife...