Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studies of foot problems as old as Xenophon's forced inarch across Asia Minor are original enough to have earned him a gold medal from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and a bronze medal from the American Medical Association. And practical enough for a Rochester shoe manufacturer, Armstrong & Co.. to spend $150,000 on: 1) support of Dr. Schwartz's gait laboratory; 2) maintenance of an extension gait laboratory in its own factory; 3) manufacture of what Dr. Schwartz calls "balance-in-motion" shoes which "compel the wearer to walk naturally." When properly fitted, "they correct...
...rearrange and brace the whole weakened structure he designed a shoe with a high, stiff, snug counter. This keeps the heel directly under the tibia, puts the heel in a straight line with the base and tip of the big toe, warps the instep into a springy arch. Shoes, according to Dr. Schwartz, must have heels to help throw the body forward while walking. Men's heels should be supported eight eighths of an inch-from the ground, women's fourteen eighths, says...
Maine's Androscoggin River, some 30 miles before it flows down to the sea, divides the cities of Lewiston and Auburn, built upon a thriving shoe industry. Month ago 19 shoe factories of the twin towns were closed by a strike of the United Shoe Workers of America, a C.I.O. union. In Lewiston, last week, Associate Justice Harry Manser of Maine's Supreme Judicial Court handed down a temporary injunction denying the union's right to call the strike. His grounds: the Wagner Labor Act. Said...
...Testimony shows that six people, not duly elected to represent the shoe workers of Lewiston and Auburn, issued a call for the union to come here...
...appeared at Lewiston fresh from a conference with Leader Lewis. When strikers emerged from a union meeting and tried again to cross the Androscoggin, police used tear gas and clubs to turn them back. In Auburn another riot ensued when police dispersed a crowd that advanced on two shoe factories that were still operating...