Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's street superintendent when his handling of a 1947 flood turned him into a local hero and set him up for election ao mayor in 1949. Consistently underestimated by the dominant G.O.P. , even after he beat Incumbent Governor Leo Hoegh in 1956, he exploited his old-shoe manner to win easy re-election in 1958, began to look like a political Music Man to rebrassed Democrats and out-of-tune Republicans...
...make the entire answer to the railroads' problems. The very nature of the commuter business-running at a peak for only four hours daily-means that roads must keep expensive equipment and labor idle for most of the day. "You couldn't profitably run a shoe factory or a bean cannery on such a schedule." says the Long Island's president, Thomas Goodfellow...
...Police Constable Reginald Oakes was crawling in total darkness along a 12-ft. plank that linked two window ledges in London's bombed-out Alexandra Hotel. At one window, trapped in the ruin of their bedroom, were a shoe manufacturer named Davies, his wife and two panicky daughters. At the other, Constable John McKenning did his best to hold the plank steady; a concrete courtyard yawned 45 ft. below...