Word: leatherizing
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...Stern Cambridge is full of 90-year-old gabled and bay-window-bellied houses, just a gentlemanly stroll from the Square's latest Marx brothers festival. In a hundred Victorian parlors like the Merriwethers', attractive parents and children play recorders and sing lieder or Cole Porter. Leather editions on subjects like Provencal poetry decorate the walls. Pedigreed dogs, knowledgeably named in Russian or even Japanese, bunk into a birch-log fire. There is a golden glow of "we": husbands and wives, colleagues, the chosen circles at dinner parties off Brattle Street, the community of the faculty club. Must...
...small (5 ft. 4 in.), balding troll of a man with a porcupine persona, Jenkins, 42, dominates a sport usually associated with big bruisers in black leather. Last year he won ten of the eleven major national drag races in the pro-stock class. At the American Hot Rod Association meet in St. Louis two months ago, he thundered down the quarter-mile strip in 8.97 sec., an all-time record. Ten days later in Epping, N.H., he clocked 8.93 sec. He only placed second last week at the N.H.R.A. world-championship meet in Amarillo, Texas, but Jenkins is still...
...real estate broker friend persuades him to convert it into something more appropriate to the neighborhood. He stocks his shelves with volumes of pornographic fantasies and the apparatus to make them real-everything from vibrators to leather harnesses. The place is renamed Sex Shop, with every letter over the door spelled out in light bulbs that burn brightly even at noon. Browsing, except by minors, is encouraged...
...long-predicted leather shortage that sparked Du Pont's interest in a leather substitute has finally arrived. Worldwide demand for leather is rising faster than the supply of hides. As a result, prices on some grades of hides have leaped as much as 110%. At the same time, worldwide demand for leather is escalating as living standards rise. "Peasants in Africa now buy new shoes every two years instead of every four," Newman says. "People in Eastern Europe want bright, colorful leather shoes and jackets." Footwear-industry analysts expect leather to drop from...
...American shoemakers, poromerics offer production efficiencies that could be critical in the industry's losing battle with cheap imports. Since artificial leather is made in uniform rolls, it can be cut with less waste than irregular hides. Shoes made from poromerics are priced up to 20% cheaper than comparable leather shoes...