Word: leatherizing
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...Jules Feldmans, carrying his credentials as charge d'affaires (a lower rank since he had not been appointed by a government), was given the full and formal State Department protocol treatment in Washington. He was warmly received by Secretary of State Acheson. For six minutes, lounging in a leather armchair, Feldmans told of the plight of 80,000 Latvian D.P.s who would like to come to the U.S. The State Department put Feldmans' name on the official list of diplomats. Mr. Feldmans did not call on the President, but it was announced unofficially that Mrs. Truman would entertain...
...broth to eat twice a week the way you do, I'd be as strong as you are." From that time on, Albert's broth stuck in his throat. He was punished repeatedly because he refused to accept such advantages as an everyday overcoat, new gloves, or leather shoes, which poorer boys did not have...
...Louis who he thought had won. "Ain't sayin'," muttered Joe, "I didn't pay to get in." For their $246,546, the customers did not see anybody Charles' seriously manager, hit the who floor fainted in except the Ezzard ring as his lackluster leather-thrower was being proclaimed the new heavyweight cham pion of the world (National Boxing Asso ciation version, not good in New York or London). It was enough to make fans sigh even for the half-good old days of Primo Carneca and Max Baer...
...Leather sandals for children, with a ball of bubble gum fitted into the uppers, were offered for sale in Washington...
Many Britons thought there was another way. A British leather-goods manufacturer, like a Drake of commerce, last week cried to his griping colleagues: "How can we not sell in the States? Remember that vast country has half the world's spending money in its pockets. Go out there, man, and get some...