Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catalogue could communicate the dimensions or the intricacy of the industrial organization, with its infinite interconnections and interdependencies, the relationships that tied it to areas as well as to industries. In Boston itself only 219 of the 5,443 manufacturing plants made boots and shoes, but shoes in Lynn and Worcester, shoe machinery in Lynn and Boston, cotton woven goods in Providence, Fall River, New Bedford, textile machinery and parts in Worcester, nonferrous metal alloys, edge tools and electrical machinery in Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury, created an industrial organization that employed more than 1,000,000, produced a large share...
...Shoe chains to prevent pedestrians from slipping on icy walks...
...Ventilated shoe trees...
Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, the medical scientists who housekeep for vitamins have an unmanageable lot of charges. At present, for example, chemists believe that there are eight varieties of vitamin B, at least ten of D. One member of the vitamin B family is also known as vitamin G, another newcomer as factor Y. Two relatives of the C tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha...
Life is sufficiently difficult, what with every shoe, grocery, and room clerk calling us everything from Tukberg to Tweeksberry without TIME'S adding to the confusion...