Word: leatherizing
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...hour siesta drew to its close, life stirred along Havana's Prado. Shoeshine boys and maracas salesmen lolled under the laurel trees. English-speaking pimps eyed the few tourists who were waiting for the smart leather and perfume shops to open...
Next day 34-year-old John Gates, editor of the Daily Worker, surrendered in Manhattan. Carl Winter, chairman of the C.P.'s Michigan committee, was picked up in Detroit. Russian-born Irving Potash, chairman of the New York Joint Board of the C.I.O.'s Fur & Leather Workers Union, hustled back from vacation to turn himself in. Still unaccounted for this week: Gilbert Green, the party's leader in Illinois; Robert Thompson, New York State C.P. chairman; Gus Hall, leader of the party's Ohio wing...
...stepped into a White House limousine with Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret, Harry Truman was a cool and confident man. He boarded his special train for Philadelphia, changed to a white linen suit and two-toned shoes, then opened a black leather folder and went over his speech...
...does not hobnob with his neighbors, but they frequently see him toiling up the hill in leather-thonged sandals, slacks and sports shirt, his arms full of groceries. With his wife Vera, he worships regularly at the Greek Orthodox Church in downtown Los Angeles. He seldom goes to parties, because, says Sapiro, "he meets so many people who think they know all about music-and particularly his music...
After he left Princeton in 1917, Elliott Springs trained as a pursuit pilot, became the nations No. 3 ace in World War I by downing eleven enemy planes. Back home, he continued as a hell-for-leather test pilot and barnstormer until his plane caught fire and crashed in the first U.S. cross-country race. The damage prompted Springs to start a much duller career in the family's mills...