Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With all due respect to the flaccid corruption innate to this snowy municipality, the recent exposures warrant firm action. Rumor has floated about that a well-known shoe firm is in collusion with the Cambridge city government. They aren't after the voter's cash. These avaricious galoshers are just drooling for undergraduate sacker money; so what do they do, but fix it up with the boys to keep the streets about Harvard full of snow. In fact, trucks of slush from other parts of the town may have been dumped on Mt. Auburn St. late at night. The Liberal...
...many a high-class factory producing handmade shoes there are two kinds of workers: high bench and low bench. A shoemaker who has learned to work at a low bench will grumble if he has to use a high one, and vice versa. But their work is the same. It consists of sewing the soles of shoes to the upper leather while the shoes are inside out, then turning them right side out. In operation last week in a long neat shoe factory in Manhattan was a new process which gave high & low bench workers alike something entirely different...
Died. Edwin Perkins ("Ned") Brown, 65, board chairman of Boston's United Shoe Machinery Corp.; of angina pectoris; in Boca Raton, Fla. He joined United Shoe soon after his father and others formed it in 1899. Intrenched behind airtight patents and a leasing system, United Shoe was more than once under fire as a monopoly, lost a battle to the U. S. Government twelve years ago. But last quarter it declared an extra dividend...
...York alone 300 manufacturers are making contraceptives of one sort or another. Peddlers hawk material on subway platforms. A 1932 survey of western Florida showed that one form of contraceptive was being sold in 376 gasoline stations, garages, restaurants, soda fountains, barber shops, pool rooms, cigar stands, news stands, shoe shine parlors, grocery stores. Slot machines for dispensing exist in several states. Contraceptives are now advertised in such magazines as Outdoor Life, Eagle Magazine, Illustrated Mechanics and Locomotive Engineers' Journal...
...been widely advanced and apparently much admired. The government, it is said, has shown that its personnel is not competent to undertake the administration of an industry of great complexity and magnitude. With equal justice one might oppose the introduction of footwear into a department store which had no shoe salesmen; the answer is that the new enterprise requires a new personnel, and that every government which has run railroads in the past has realized this, and hired railroad executives to do the work. Much of the actual administration of great industrial mechanisms is in the hands of men indifferent...