Word: steele
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upstairs. Here Peter, or one of the boys, performs the strategic steps in boot production. The inner sole is tacked to the bottom of the "last" and then trimmed to fit it perfectly. Next, the upper is fitted to the "last" with repeated stretching and tacking. From there, the steel sole shank and outer soles are applied and the heel is built up. Finally a corrugated rubber outer sole is applied and the finishing touches of grooving the heels and waterproofing all exposed stitching take place. The finished product is a perfectly fitted, ox-blood colored boot, resplendent with brass...
Harvard has always used wooden goal posts except for one game about 14 years ago when metal posts were tried. The steel markers were uprooted in four or five hours, carried over the bridge, and dumped into the river. One of the posts got firmly entrenched in an upright position and caused so much trouble to passing shells before it could be removed that the authorities went back to wooden posts...
...Burial. Prices steadied, but on Monday the selling began again. Steel tumbled to 186, General Electric lost 47⅛ points. Tickers again fell nearly three hours behind, and again thousands of new margin calls went out for the money that couldn't be begged or borrowed. Thus came "Black Tuesday...
Died. Edward R. Stettinius Jr., 49, U.S. industrialist (General Motors, U.S. Steel), onetime (1944-45) U.S. Secretary of State, later rector of the University of Virginia; of a heart ailment; in Greenwich, Conn, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Jesse learned to kill in the Civil War. The son of a steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that...