Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case had begun on April 15, 1920, when Fred Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli were shot down while carrying the payroll of a South Braintree shoe factory from the company offices to the plant. Their assailants grabbed the $15,000 payroll, leaped into a car which drew up alongside, and sped away...
...Plastic shoes have been around for years, and 35 companies now turn them out. But plastic has mostly been used for cheap shoes because it does not breathe like leather and usually makes feet hot and uncomfortable. Now a plastic-like material has been developed that looks, feels and breathes like leather, and is said to wear better and cost less to make. For the $700 million leather industry, which devotes 85% of its business to producing leather for shoe uppers, a challenge is at hand as great as the one that faced the textile industry a dozen years...
...threat to the industry comes largely from giant Du Pont, which has developed its own synthetic material for shoes after 13 years of searching in the labs. Du Pont is producing the material at a pilot plant in Newburgh, N.Y., is building a plant in Tennessee for full-scale production, and is exploring foreign markets with an eye to building overseas plants. The largest U.S. shoemaker, St. Louis' International Shoe Co.. hopes to make shoes from Du Pont's material by spring of 1964, and other firms are sure to follow. A similar synthetic material has been...
...finding a method of putting thousands of microscopic holes into synthetics to enable them to "breathe." Both firms shy away from calling the synthetics plastics; Du Pont is calling its product a "poromeric material" (meaning full of microscopic holes) until it can decide on a trademark name. The shoe material is made in two or three layers: outside is a polyvinyl chloride film that can be treated to look like any leather, from cordovan to suede; next is either a layer of nylon or orlon (Du Pont) or one of polyurethane foam (Arnav); the shoe's inside layer...
...Married. Du Pont salesmen have taken samples of their material to more than 100 shoe manufacturing plants, have found shoemakers so interested in the new material, says a Du Pont executive, that "it almost scares us.'' "We're not married to leather," says President Samuel Slosberg of Boston's Green Shoe Manufacturing Co. "If the consumer goes for this new stuff, so will...