Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime downtown hell-raisers entered East Lansing with an eye to closing business establishments and the restaurants. These first 60-odd men closed all stores along the main street with the exception of one-a pocket in the wall known as Jim Brakeman's Bootery, "smallest shoe store in the world." Jim. a 250-lb. former State footballer, does not close under just any order. And the student body likes Jim pretty well...
...Accompanied by two wives, three managers, seven assistants and some 200 pieces of baggage, they had been entertained in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Boston, New York and Washington. They had toured Ford and General Motors plants, the Endicott Johnson shoe factory at Binghamton, N. Y., General Electric's Schenectady plant and the broadcasting studios of Radio City. In conference with U. S. automobile men they were pointedly reminded that a car selling for $730 in the U. S. costs $1,194 in Japan, heard what benefits would follow for Japan...
...junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes he believes is a rediscovery of a lost purple used by the Egyptians. He made paints from clay, peanuts and cattle dung. With...
High overhead all the disturbance, the big bass bell seems to fidget uneasily. Not yet. No. No one is beating a wastebasket yet. But soon . . . Yes, there goes that tinny one now, beaten with a shoe--cynical applause. Shucks, this fellow practicing on his violin in the dark shadows of the tower room gets as much response from the boys with a pound or so of wood and gut as a wild, untuned bell gets with a ton of metal on Sunday mornings...
Emilie and Marie each have 17 teeth, the others 16. They can now brush their own teeth, comb their own hair, dress themselves completely (except for shoe-tying), go to the toilet alone. They feed themselves and for the past month have been carrying their empty dishes from the table to the pantry...