Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your admirable review of political corruption in the States you touched upon the activities of the shoe-polish interests in Louisiana, their ardor in drilling new wells for the purpose of making carbon black, in turn to be used in the manufacture of shoe-polish "and other products...
Carbon black is an important ingredient in the manufacture of automobile tires. High quality black is one great factor in giving automobile users of today far greater tire mileage than they had ten years ago. That, assuredly, is more important than shoe-polish, according to the standards of today...
...factory already operates in the great gas field north of this city. Another large manufacturer now operating in the East is pleading before the high courts for a chance to open a carbon plant. Probably it was carbon black that helped tell your readers about shoe-polish. There are scores of other interesting uses for this black dust that is captured as it flies up from hordes of tiny natural gas candles in the smoke-blanketed carbon black area of the Louisiana gas field. And the "wet" gas furnishes carload after carload of gasoline before it is used...
...anti-Red hysteria. The man had jumped or been pushed from a 14th floor window. Anarchist Vanzetti, having read the news, joked little that morning with the housewives. "At the same time, Nicola Sacco was working in Stoughton on an edging machine at the Three K's shoe factory. . . , He had a pretty wife and a little son named Dante. There was another baby coming. He lived in a bungalow belonging to his employer, Michael Kelly. . . . The men were friends. Often Kelly advised him to lay off this anarchist stuff. There was no money in it. ... Sacco...
...sought to collect German reparations by occupying the Ruhr, only one policy can be expected-direct, courageous action along "Capitalistic" lines. As he ascended the Tribune all the Communist Deputies and most of the Socialists leaped to their feet, stamping, screaming, hurling oaths and an occasional book, shoe, inkstand. . . . For almost five minutes absolute pandemonium reigned. From the Tribune M. Poincaré looked down with a sneer only partially masked by his beard. He, ever fearless, did not sneer rashly. His compact figure stood symbol for the might of his "Sacred Union Cabinet" (TIME, Aug. 2), uniting all parties...