Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother, by standing tiptoe, could touch his shoulder, and his older sister could walk hand-in-hand with him without making him stoop. But no longer. Only comfortable way for him to motor is astride the car or in a truck. His suits require nine yards of cloth. Shoes, haberdashery and suits all must be specially made for him. His shoe size is 36 and shoemakers make much of him at their Chicago conventions...
...giants have trouble with their feet. Robert Wadlow has no sensations of touch, pain or temperature in his feet. Says Dr. Humberd: "He is unaware of a wrinkle in his sock or a foreign body in his shoe until a blister, followed by an ulcer, is formed." His ears are oversize, his heart in proper proportion, genitalia small but normal...
...Shoes & Hats. Like the meat packers, the light industries which helped shoe, clothe and hat the U. S. reported a varied year. International Shoe Co. showed an $8,416,000 profit for the fiscal year through November, a slight drop. Endicott Johnson Corp.'s income ($1,974,000) was also off a little from the year before. But it was a good year for hats. Philadelphia's John B. Stetson Co. swelled its profits from $301,000 to $485,334, while Hat Corp. of America (Knox, Dobbs) reported net income of $923,000 in the year through November...
Madeleine Carroll, whose chiseled sophistication makes her ideal for such stories as Lloyd's of London, is badly miscast, still manages to lend her ridiculous role dignity. Dick Powell gives another of his exalted-shoe-clerk performances. Alice Faye, in a part which requires only that she act natural, comes off best. What makes On the Avenue fun is not the antics of this troubled triangle, but the half-dozen high-spots sprinkled through the picture, usually with excellent accompanying melodies by Irving Berlin. Samples: Dick Powell hunting for The Girl on the Police Gazette, Madeleine Carroll and Dick...
...wealthy Boston shoe manufacturer, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Charles Hayden specialized in economics and mining engineering. Fore seeing the expansion of electrical power, he made up his mind to get rich in copper. Charles Hayden proposed to do so not by mining copper but by speculating in copper. Year after graduation he took a $3-a-week job as a "ticker boy" to learn the inside of a broker's office. At 21 he was ready to borrow $20,000 from his father, launch his own brokerage business with his officemate Galen L. Stone, whose Milk Street...