Word: leatherizing
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...caves or in skyscrapers, reached back 96 years for support from The House of the Seven Gables. "We shall live to see the day," wrote Hawthorne, "when no man shall build his house for posterity. Why should he? He might just as reasonably order a durable suit of clothes-leather, or guttapercha, or whatever else lasts longest-so that his great-grandchildren should have the benefit of them, and cut precisely the same figure in the world that he himself does. ... I doubt whether even our public edifices-our capitols, statehouses, courthouses, city-hall and churches-ought to be built...
...early (2:59 a.m.) takeoff, to meet U.S. Ambassador Walter Thurston and his aides, drawn up on the cement apron. At the same moment Mexico's President Miguel Aleman started down a specially built staircase from the observation platform (which had been newly decorated with brown rugs, leather office furniture, gleaming brass spittoons). The 21-gun salute due a chief of state boomed out; the U.S. and Mexican anthems sounded...
...newspapers had a proprietary interest in the slugging. The contestants had been chosen in local contests sponsored by the papers. Though the fighters usually showed more spunk than skill, Golden Gloves had produced Joe Louis. The photographers worked as hard on their bosses' pet sport promotion as the leather-pushers. Their pictures were the sport shots of the week (see cuts...
Ploughmen, Yes. Leather-skinned Fausto Marcelli is a ploughman. He has eleven children, born with annual regularity over eleven years. Fausto likes big families-"It's good to have lots of workers"-but there has to be work to do. "Our plot at Frosinone is pretty good earth, but I'd need a lot more to feed 13 people. They have told me that the earth in Argentina is good-as black as a pair of new boots"-and Fausto rubs together his calloused, white-knuckled fingers as if feeling the black earth there in his hands...
...which he had boosted output. To hear Trud tell it, Comrade Matrosov was a combination Bedaux, Stakhanov and Henry Ford. Last week, in a straight-faced cable, Middleton described Matrosov's amazing changes. The foreman "found that much of a cutter's time was lost in carrying leather to the cutting machine. ... He figured out that this could be done by an auxiliary worker. . . ." Also the "needle-witted Mr. Matrosov" had noticed that workers of various heights stood on small steps before their machines; some had to bend, while others stood on tiptoe. "After thinking awhile, Mr. Matrosov...