Word: leatherizing
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...their neighbors, because they were making military equipment. Three weeks ago, when the military orders were cut back for lack of raw materials, the Communist management slashed the workers' wages 30% to the starvation level normal for Polish workers (a month's work for a pair of leather shoes). The locomotive workers sent a delegation to Warsaw's Communist bureaucrats to plead their case, but, having little hope of relief, they organized a strike...
...body, found in a Danish peat bog, was buried 8 ft. deep. It was naked except for a cap and belt, had a one-day stubble of beard on its face and was perfectly preserved. The plaited-leather hangman's noose around its neck indicated that the man had been strangled before being thrown into the bog. The peat cutters who found it hastened to call the police. But the police were unable to solve the mystery and did not really care. The body had been lying in the peat for some 2,000 years...
...mystery and marvel of the 2,000-year-old scrolls found nine years ago in caves near the ruins of a religious community on the Dead Sea, two scrolls shone with a special aura. For these, instead of leather or parchment, were of copper-a precious metal in those ancient times, betokening a message of highest value. Oxidized by time, the copper scrolls stubbornly withheld their secret while scientists puttered and pondered over the problem of unrolling them without crumbling them to powder...
Died. Clarence Edward Mulford, 73, prolific author (Bar 20, On the Trail of the Tumbling T), creator of the durable Hopalong Cassidy series; after a chest operation; in Portland, Me. When Hollywood turned Mulford's plug-ugly, hell-for-leather Hoppy into a handsome, clean-living dude (played by William Boyd since 1935), Author Mulford let out a pained cry ("an absolutely ludicrous character''), saw only six versions on celluloid, none on TV. Fifteen years ago, after grinding out more than 100 western novels and short stories, stay-at-home Author Mulford rebelled at high federal income...
...British government clerk and yearns to be a full-fledged, "civilized," Christian Briton. But, even in his bumbling and his guile, the sunny-natured, light-fingered, childlike clerk is miles from his models. An orphan of two cultures, he carries a furled umbrella while walking barefoot, with his patent leather pumps hanging about his neck...