Word: footgear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary, too, to TIME'S interesting account of the Cosden sale-and-purchase (TIME, April 10), and to reports published locally, Cosden leaped not from the shoes of a Maryland drug clerk but from the more thinly-soled footgear of a small-town newspaper reporter into the shiny boots of an Oklahoma oilaire. So said Cosden to friendly Big Springers who dined him the evening after the sale in their oil-built 15 story Settles hotel...
President Hoover last week revealed himself as an undaunted top-notch tariff Republican to the end. To a world of depreciated currencies, he made object lessons of sneakers from Japan, rubbers from Czechoslovakia. Alarmed at growing imports of such footgear, the U. S. Tariff Commission found that they were being produced abroad in terms of cheap money at less than the cost of raw materials to U. S. manufacturers in gold dollars. In 1930 Japan exported to the U. S. 1,074,096 pairs of rubber-soled shoes, in 1932, 2,467,646 pairs. Ineffective appeared U. S. tariff rates...