Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willie McLean, one of the five Scotsmen on his team, scampered down the left side of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, took a neat pass from the inside man, gave the large round leather ball a clever kick with the toe of his right shoe. It sailed past Chesney, the New York Americans' goal guard, into the net behind the goal. That was less than two minutes after the second half began but it was enough to win, 1 to 0, the first game of the two-out-of-three series in the final round...
...Sons and W. H. Compton, of Newark; H. Boker & Co. (established in 1837, now run by the founder's grandchildren), J. A. Henckels (branch of the German firm of the same name) and Griffon Cutlery Works, in Manhattan. Several other companies make scissors as side lines, including United Shoe Machinery Corp. of Boston, Landers, Frary & Clark of Xew Britain, Conn., Remington Arms and Winchester Repeating Arms Co. of New Haven...
DEATH ON MY LEFT-Philip MacDonald-Crime Club ($2). Colonel Gethryn reads a boxer's history from a shoe brush...
There can be no doubt that the strikers in this case have much to complain about. At best a seasonal industry, the shoe plants have been running at less than half-capacity since 1929. Wages were never much above a bare subsistence level, and since the crash have been cut repeatedly and drastically. Conditions in the factories are extremely foul; high competition between firms and the shifting of capital to the south has not allowed any luxuries. Unions are rarely dealt with and have little force in regulating payrolls. In view of this situation it is particularly tragic that nothing...
...shoe industry is practically at a standstill, and the operators can quite afford to wait a few weeks until the workers are driven back to the shops by sheer want, for orders are not so many or so pressing that they cannot be filled next week as well as today. Nothing beyond pure benevolence or consideration on the part of the employers can bring any alleviation of the workers position, and the operators in the sloe industry are not widely noted for such philanthropy. In short, strikes in this region are hardly more than brave gestures, yet the Massachusetts trouble...