Word: shoeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the emergence of Czechoslovakia, the Bat'a firm weathered strenuous post-War depression and came at last into deadly cutthroat competition with the old hand-shoemaker class. One day Shoeman Bat'a cut his prices 50%. Soon hunger-haunted shoemakers paraded through Prague, displaying placards: Bat'a Shoes are Paper Shoes! Shoemaker mobs became ugly...