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...going to cost Canadians more not only to eat, but to dress and to build. Ottawa stores predicted that rising leather prices would raise the price of shoes $2 to $4 a pair. A similar prediction in Winnipeg set off a buying spree. In some Vancouver yards, lumber went up $5 to $8 per thousand feet, to complicate the problem of new housing...
...Among items decontrolled: flour, bread, peas, beans, canned goods, textiles, leather, clothing, lumber, farm implements, nails, wire, gopher poison. Among the few still controlled: meat, rents, sugar, soap...
Featured on the Terror Team are four Medford boys, two of whom were named on the All-Maryland team of 1946. Joe Corletto at tackle is a bulwark of strength on the line and after the football season is a heavy-weight leather-pusher in the ring. He gave a creditable account of himself in the Inter-Collegiate Boxing Association Championships at Penn State last winter, Hank Corrado, a triple threat fullback, can smash the line, heave a pass, or punt with the best...
Guest List. The conference windup was all but lost in the fun. Delegates gathered at the fog-bound Quitandinha Hotel for one last session. That afternoon, in the soft-green-walled second-story "treaty room" of the Itamarati, they signed their names in the blue leather-bound volume entitled "Treaty of Rio de Janeiro." George Marshall arrived last and wrote his first initial so large that it had to be blotted before he could continue. Sol Bloom was barely prevented from signing for Brazil...
...Delmonico.) Sophie's first fling at designing was as a child in Atlanta; she made clothes for her dolls. Her mother believed in girls' marrying young, so Sophie obliged her by marrying at 19, went to live with her husband in Philadelphia, where he was in the leather business. For nine years she lived the superficially quiet life of a well-to-do housewife, spent her spare time designing clothes for amateur theatricals. Then she was divorced ("it was all very friendly-we just decided we didn't get on together...