Word: leatherizing
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...addition, 76 textile mills, 20 leather factories and a number of other suppliers of raw materials will switch to producing to the demand of the converted consumer-goods factories. Though Liberman is not likely to replace Lenin in the hierarchy of Communist saints, and though both the professor and Moscow protest too much that Libermanism is not capitalism, Russia is clearly looking backward in its most important economic experiment in several decades...
...Scully who did most of the damage. He had 15 points during the last nine minutes of play, and 24 for the game. When Scully tries his twisting, underhanded lay-up against experienced big men, he frequently winds up picking leather from between his teeth. But the Brobdingnagian Indian sophomores were baffled by his tactics...
Long past midnight, the phone rang in a motel room near Miami. The caller spoke swiftly. Minutes later, a New York City detective named Richard Maline stood before Locker 0911 at the Trailways bus station in downtown Miami and opened it. Inside, he found two small, waterlogged leather bags containing several tissues. Wrapped in the tissues were a couple of handfuls of gems, including the golfball-sized, 563.35-carat Star of India sapphire. Thus were recovered nine of the 24 sapphires, diamonds, rubies and emeralds that had been taken from New York City's American Museum of Natural History...
...Canadian bread and grocery magnate (more than 700 stores in Britain) acquired Fortnum's in 1951, emphasis has shifted away from foods. Britain's bowler-hat and mink-coat contingent can now shop at Fortnum's for women's wear, men's clothing, leather goods, linens, even TV sets. A toy department offers miniature Rolls-Royces and hand-carved rocking horses. The gifts department has a $190 crystal champagne bucket and a $700 crocodile-skin desk set. There is also an antique department in which almost nothing is less than $1,000, and a boutique...
...board. Where once marble and bronze held sway, sculpture is now made of plastics, automobile fenders, even fur, carpeting and burlap. In place of the commemorative bust, the symbolic nude or heroic grouping, there are now polyester broads, overstuffed light switches, 3-D inside-out doughnuts, stuffed-leather totems, and well-welded remnants of the new Iron Age. The definition of sculpture has broadened until it has become an Everyman art, and the results exist more as a fascinating collection of objects than ideal worlds of form...