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Word: shoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks time, however, the bare, picturesque feet of Portugal will be shod. Naturally shoe purveying acquaintances of General Carmona will profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Shoes by Decree | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Mooted but unconfirmed is the tale that behind Dictator Carmona's sudden shoe decree looms a man named Bat'a. Famed, he, Thomas Bat'a, is the Shoe Tycoon of Czechoslovakia (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Shoes by Decree | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...fact : Sugar, a hydro carbon (C12H22O11) is the only organic chemical which is manufactured chemically pure on a tonnage basis. Hydrocarbons are easily broken down. Atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, may be taken from them, forming new and different hydrocarbons. Possible uses of sugar are in the manufacture of shoe polish, soap, explosives, fuel, essential oils. Conceivably a vast industrial opportunity lies behind the purity of sugar. The question: Why doesn't industrial chemistry find for sugar other factories than the stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sugar & Spreckels | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Woman enters shoe store in Rue de la Paix. Salesman removes shoe. What then shall salesman do with foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Business Snatching | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Scandalized Anglo-Saxon correspondents reported, last week, that the shoe shop 01 one smart Parisian .business, snatches ;has doubled sales within the past month, simply _ because each salesman now raise- feminine foot with gallant yet reverent gesture and implants kiss just above toes on instep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Business Snatching | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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