Word: leatherizing
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...King, she, excluded, to have tea with an unnamed friend), a nimble burglar had slipped past two Scotland Yard detectives, clambered up a drainpipe at rambling, red brick Ednam Lodge and gained entrance to the Windsors' white-walled bedroom. He went to a Gladstone bag, removed a brown leather jewel case. From a small leather box on the Duke's bedside table, he plucked a valuable watch. Two hundred yards away, he stopped, picked through the jewel case, discarded some inexpensive hatpins. Then he drove away. According to the Duchess, he had stolen every jewel she owned except...
Special features of the snappy roadster are leather upholstery, a tremendous thirst for water, and a gearshift mechanism that just right out of the dash board and whose design is exactly the opposite of the ordinary...
...well-heeled foreigners, Italy is the most comfortable of all the European countries that took part in the war. There is hardly a pretense of rationing. The whole country is on the black market. For the rich there are unlimited quantities of consumer goods-women's clothing, shoes, leather goods, etc. of the most elegant quality. The poor are badly off, but not any worse off than they are elsewhere in Europe...
...want of lard, National Biscuit Co., the nation's largest baker, closed its New York and Philadelphia plants. All other big bakers either cut production or planned to close. For want of hides and leather, shoe production next month would drop to about one-third of the first-quarter level, with many shutdowns of shoe factories in the offing. For want of animal extracts, insulin and streptomycin supplies dwindled toward a critical...
...cure the "controlled" leather shortage, OWMR Boss John R. Steelman announced that U.S. tanners would be permittee to buy hides in the world market at world prices (almost 90% above OPA ceilings) but they must still sell all products, except leather from imported raw calfskins, at ceiling prices. No tanners could afford to do this. Anyway, the U.S. had waited so long to make up its mind that other nations had bought up nearly all the hides there were...