Word: tans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chen married Tan Hsiang, comely daughter of Nationalist China's first Premier, and they now have six children, all attending school at Taipei. Tan, a Christian, has tried to convert her husband to Christianity, but he remains loyal to Confucius...
Other new automatic processes: ¶A push-button hide-tanning process developed by the Colonial Tanning Co. and just installed at its Milwaukee plant. Instead of curing hides by a great deal of manual work, Colonial-now has a conveyor belt to carry hides past splitting and shaving machines, uses automatic controls to mix acids and oils in correct proportion to tan them, and still more automatic controls to circulate just the right amount of warm air in drying rooms to finish curing the hides. In the past, it took six men eight hours to tan 50,000 square feet...
...sides and the top. Long stockings, black, and high-buttoned shoes . . . Then I had a stiff high collar and white linen cuffs. My dress was all braided in the front, and the long jacket I wore, that was also braided. We bought the braid in patterns. My gloves were tan-colored, doe skin, they called them. And then, the ring...
...final of the three-day eliminations (in which the field was cut from 196 to 96) was the most exciting-and proved out a clear-cut winner: Eddie, a lop-eared black, white and tan hound owned by Frank Jacobs, an oil-rich Cherokee Indian from Oklahoma City...
...deep tan could not cover his haggard P.W. look. But he had a quick smile for the welcomers. "I feel like a million dollars," he said. "I almost sent a challenge to Rocky Marciano, I feel so good...