Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shoe" Shoemaker was self-converted in 1925, joined an Assembly of God church. Since then, he has never started a day at his drawing board without praying, reading from the Bible. But he discovered that "when you become a Christian, you're all alone in the world-especially if you work in a newspaper office." Cartoonist Shoemaker took to lunching once a week with a friend who had also been converted. Their lunches expanded, soon became a Gospel Fellowship Club, which today has 800 members in Chicago, 1,200 in other Midwest cities...
...plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon a screen. The Shoescope is a great attraction in Chicago churches, in which "Shoe" shows it about once a week. A prime favorite is Shoemaker's 1938 Pulitzer Prizewinner, "The Road Back"-a soldier marching to World...
...years big Melville Shoe Corp. (No. 1 U. S. shoe retailer; sales: 10,000,000 pairs of shoes, 12,000,000 pairs of socks) and J. F. McElwain Co., Nashua, N. H., shoemaker, have got along fine. The arrangement between them has been that Melville contracts to take most (now 92%) of McElwain's yearly output, to be sold through its 652 Thom McAn chain stores. Under the plan the factory sold shoes to the distributor at cost, took a percentage of net profits from sales. This streamlined combine, which eliminated all conflict between the two main branches...
Forced to import some 70,000,000 hides (15% of its cattle hides, 25% of its calf, 50% of its sheep, all of its goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only 12% above their Depression I low, are fully 30% under 1929. That, say U. S. shoemakers, is giving the U. S. pedestrian a lot of shoe for his money. To the shoe industry, that also means a lot of business for its prices: 1936 and 1937 sales topped...
...father produce the girl in court. Reporters had interviewed Mr. Herrick and found him the classic figure of the outraged parent trying to keep his girl home: "If I put my foot down," he stormed, "it'll stay down." And they noted that he wore a 9½ shoe...