Word: leatherizing
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Only once in his life had Sergeant Third Class Liu Yun ever worn leather shoes. That was as a Szechwan peasant boy in the year of the bountiful crops. His father had made enough money that season to buy him a pair of shiny black shoes. Liu could still remember how smooth and bright they felt on his stubble-tough soles...
...barracks last week Liu, the peasant's son, came upon the trunk of a captured Japanese. In it he found a pair of hobnailed shoes. They were worn and rough, but they were leather. Carefully Liu drew them on his feet. To his bare ankles they felt smooth and cool as silk. Liu wriggled his toes, walked a few steps, and grinned. This was no dream...
...market, seized Frenchmen as hostages. On roads out of town, they ambushed every foreign party that came along. An American OSS officer, Lieut. Colonel A. Peter Dewey, was shot dead (the Annamites mistook his jeep for a French car), another U.S. officer was wounded in a hell-for-leather battle...
...Council of Foreign Ministers, established at Potsdam to carry on for the Big Three, had scarcely warmed the red leather chairs in London's Lancaster House before the members began wrangling over procedures. They stayed in session a fort night, progressed only in the sense that they strangled over progressively more important matters...
...likely to get the 25% of her rice supply which normally came from abroad, and the domestic crop was 8% below normal. Steel production was 20% of normal, machine tools 70%, chemicals 20%, textiles 15%, electricity 30%. There was little salt, and the general public could expect no leather shoes before 1946. Meanwhile they would wear wooden get a (clogs). The country had lost 11 million of its 14 million prewar cotton spindles but could still supply domestic textile needs if it had 5 million piculs (1,300,000 U.S. bales) of cotton. The total on hand: 100,000 piculs...