Word: leatherizing
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...mild December night for Washington-cool and damp. In the big, oval study on the second floor of the White House, a cheery blaze crackled in the grey marble fireplace. Franklin Roosevelt leaned back in his big leather easy chair. Up & down the cluttered, cream-walled room, Harry Hopkins paced nervously. History was expected...
...Walter Bedell Smith, who had been General Eisenhower's wartime chief of staff. Now Harriman was to hold a last press conference. But before he could start talking, the door opened. State Secretary James Byrnes walked in. He was smiling and in his hand he carried a small leather case...
...irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather journalism school...
...Many a leather-faced wartime ranker figured that it would be more profitable, in the long run, to become an enlisted man again when the shooting was over. Few had to drop as far back as Ralph T. Shannon, who had spent 19 years as an enlisted man when the Army called him to duty as a reserve officer...
Most important of all, the republics set to work to make what they could no longer import. Argentines shipped fewer hides, turned them into finished leather goods themselves. Chileans proudly looked for the label Fabricación Chilena on their tires, even though the rubber and cotton material still had to be shipped in. In Brazil's São Paulo alone, 300 new firms grew up during one year, to make such former import standbys as cotton and wool yarns, rayon, rails, leather goods cellophane, ceramic and chemical products...