Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some few hours later rich Mr. Eastman arrived at Cairo wearing one slipper, one shoe, a pair of dress trousers and the jacket of his green pajamas. He told how the train was finally stopped, when the sleeping car attendant managed to climb, catlike, over the swaying luggage van and into the cab of an engineer who knew his trade too well to look behind. Other passengers, all safe, were chiefly irate because their luggage had been destroyed when the two flaming coaches, which could not be extinguished, were uncoupled and allowed to burn to the rails...
Died. John Mortimer Coward, 28, millionaire owner of the Coward shoe stores (Manhattan); of heart disease; in Havana, Cuba. His son, John Mortimer Coward 3d, aged 5, falls heir...
...champions. The headquarters of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association is in Akron, Ohio. A horseshoe pitcher uses two horseshoes, each weighing 2½ Ibs. He tosses them at an iron stake 40 ft. away, protruding 8 in. above a bed of potters clay. Then his opponent does likewise. The shoe that lands nearest the stake scores 1 point; a ringer 3 points; a double ringer 6 points. The first player to score 50 points wins the game. In championship matches, calipers and a straight edge are used to determine accurately which horseshoe is nearest the stake. But in casual bouts...
...GREAT AMERICAN BAND WAGON -Charles Merz - John Day ($3). Everybody come quick, jump aboard, see a lotta things you never saw before, forget you're a shoe clerk, play cowboy an' injun, make yourself a hero, have secret power -everybody's doing it, follow the crowd, you can't go wrong...
Federal Reserve Banks state in the February reports?Boston: "There was a further decline ... in the number of wage earners employed in identical manufacturing establishments in Massachusetts. The largest declines took place in the boot & shoe and the cotton goods industries, and were partly due to seasonal influences." Chicago: "Employment at industrial plants . . . showed an aggregate decline of 0.7%. . . . The comparatively small curtailment was the result of an upturn in the demand for iron & steel, which to a large extent counteracted the continued slowing-down in other industrial lines . . ."; San Francisco: In California, 781 firms employed 136,342 in December...