Word: leatherizing
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...surgeon-whose wrist tendons had been cut at Dachau so that he might never practice again. Said Blaha: "Orders frequently were received at Dachau for skulls. Teeth counted a great deal. ... It was dangerous to have a soft, fine skin or good teeth. . . . Soft human skin was prized for leather and bindings. . . ." Pointing an accusing finger at Philosopher Alfred Rosenberg, Reichsbank President Walter Funk, Labor Boss Fritz Sauckel and Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, the witness said that they had visited Dachau concentration camp, and had watched its atrocity show. (The four in the dock sat bolt upright, clenching the rail...
...TACA's Manhattan office, bulky, genial Ben Pepper leaned back comfortably in the red leather chair once reserved for Yerex and took charge of TACA's corporate and financial affairs. Soon a new president will be picked. Most likely candidates: Ben Pepper or Tom Hardin...
...Hearst hierarchy has a very clear notion of what Young Bill thinks about-except that it seems to match his father's thinking pretty well. (But the Old Man, at Bill's age, was a hell-for-leather radical, campaigning for cheap money, public power and Democrats...
...footman flings open the portals of my palace in that New Jerusalem for me; another unrolls a red path of velvet to the enormous motor which floats me through the city traffic-I leaning back like Ed ward VII, or like God, on leather cushions, smoking a big cigar...
...incentive pay plan, warned them they had better be good or get out. Result: B & B salesmen boosted their average salaries to about $7,000 a year. In the last four years, despite paper shortages, B & B, which also makes cigaret lighters, playing cards and leather novelties, has quadrupled its gross to $24,873,000 this year. Still President Ward is not ready to rest...