Word: leatherizing
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...editing, although if Wallace is unsure of a manuscript he may ask her to read it. But the traces of her hand are all over the Digest offices. She planned their decoration and amenities herself: soft pink and green pastel walls, patterned linen draperies, 18th-Century Georgian tables and leather-topped desks, fresh-cut flowers changed twice...
...dispenser is golden metal with a tooled leather strip in dark colors around the middle. Price...
...Tele-pad" is the name of this item which is set in a fine leather tray, hand-tooled in 25 carat gold holds. It comes in wine, red, or brown at SHREVE'S in Boston for $5.00. The attached pencil is automatic and refill pads can be obtained...
Next, U.S. Leather caught his eye. Its common stock was selling for only $4. Fox figured that it was way undervalued, since its assets were worth much more than the price of all the stock outstanding. He started buying Leather stock, discovered that the company held oil & gas rights on 500,000 acres in Pennsylvania, where Fox had already started prospecting for gas. He bought control of the company, promptly prepared to change it. He sold off its leather inventories and eleven tanneries for $15 to $16 million, says he will soon distribute $13 to $14 million in cash...
...value of Fox's holdings in Pennsylvania is hard to run down, chiefly because he has so many personal drilling deals, works through so many individuals and companies other than U.S. Leather. For those reasons, Wall Streeters are still skeptical of his latest projects. But Fox thinks the pot worth the gamble, especially since a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California is spending more than $500,000 to drill a deep well near some of Leather's holdings. By going deep enough, it hopes to find a new oil pool that was missed before. Says Fox enthusiastically: "Standard...