Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Arthur Wilson, 40, consulting chemist of Milwaukee. Wis. Dr. Wilson was judged worthy of the medal (given for outstanding achievement in colloid chemistry) for his seven years' study of leather. He had found that the dimensions of leather are affected by changes in relative humidity, that shoes swell, pinching tender feet, when wet weather approaches. By using special tanning materials, he proved to shoe manufacturers that this foot-squeeze can be reduced two-thirds. He also demonstrated to shoemen that by proper tanning they could make a shoe waterproof from the outside, at the same time allow perspiration...
...Cecil Cline, 16, swore to a marriage license clerk she was "between 21 and 22," procured a license, married Hollie Jones. Her father swore out perjury warrants for her, her husband, two friends. But Mrs. Hollie Jones explained she had put a slip of paper marked "21" in her shoe, another marked "22" in her hat, so had not lied...
...done a daily drawing of "Abe Martin," a lanky Indiana farmer whose comments on life and current topics were homely, brief, genial. He invented other small-town characters, syndicated their sage humor in many a U. S. paper. Some Abe Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could all stand discouragement like a reformer? . . 'I heard a shot and a scream in the hall but wuz jest listenin' in on Amos & Andy and thought no more...
...world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque Adam, the oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying out a number of companies in the same industry-shoe companies were at first his favorite-consolidating them, selling stock in the merger at four or five times its actual value. Came the Wall Street crash and World Depression. Banque Adam, Oustric et Cie and other Oustric companies failed for a total of $56,000,000. Among the many roars...
...Peasants selling farm-made boots for "the standard price" of $75 per pair in shoe-short Moscow. . . . Twenty-one U. S. engineers & wives in "Austingrad" where foundations 2,000 ft. long are now in for the $20,000,000 Soviet Ford factory...