Word: leatherizing
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...industry thought a year ago that its long-gushing boom was trickling out. In its hell-far-leather expansion, the industry had overtaken all demand and for the first time since World War II found itself producing more oil than it could sell. State commissions, which set the legal flow of oil from wells in the five big producing states, cut back the allowable production, to prevent a bigger glut...
Ascot's Third to a Discussion. Anthony Eden, in the anecdotal way that Britons have, put the question very clearly last week. He leaned on the black leather dispatch box in the House of Commons and discussed the chances of civilization's survival in as casual a tone as if he were assessing the third race at Ascot. Said Eden...
...were sighted. The jeeps emptied in a rush as their occupants dived for the cover of roadside woods. MacArthur did not dive. He stepped sedately from the black sedan, walked away a few steps and gazed nonchalantly at the sky until the planes were gone. Then he dusted his leather jacket carefully and returned...
...have to stay around and get to know people before you feel the situation -feel sick and weak when you learn someone you know has been arrested, nauseated by a note summoning you to a police station, angered every time you see one of those unmistakable men in brown leather coats [the STB-Czechoslovak Secret Police] . . .[The police] are rarely brutal. But I know or know of persons who have been beaten, persons who have been questioned for 24 hours . . . where the sound of other people being beaten in the next room could be heard...
...members be set up to guard against journalistic "excesses" (TIME, July 11), Britain's publishers are still "considering" (i.e., ignoring) the idea. Last week the French legislature was studying a similar proposal. Alarmed, France's newspapers had joined hands to fight it. "A chastity belt of heavy leather and chains," cried leftist Franc-Tireur. Snapped rightist L'Epoque: "A mailed hand on the liberty of the press." So long as such vigilance continues, the free press at least seemed secure in the democracies, its oldest home...