Word: leatherizing
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...made of steel and leather, weighed about ten pounds. On the end of it was what the Army cheerfully calls a "miracle hand"-a black-gloved affair with a thumb and forefinger that spring together when the good arm jerks some leather thongs strung across the body like a conductor's signal cord. The thongs are hard to wash, and the boys say that they soon begin to smell. The arm can be fitted with a pair of hooks with which, after much practice, a man can button himself up, tie shoelaces and lift up to 20 pounds...
...More than 75% of its orders for cotton and wool textiles, leather, lumber, shoes...
...beyond the road to a cramped, three-man office he took with him a Lucite name plate, a box of cigars, a black walnut tobacco humidor, a letter opener made from a B-29 throttle by some of his boys in India long ago, and a leather folder containing pictures of his wife Helen and six-year-old daughter Jane, who wait in Lakewood, Ohio...
Soon to arrive for duty still unspecified was able, leather-lunged Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., late of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy...
...York by ship this week. It was a small, British-built, ten-horsepower Austin sedan. It was also the first evidence that Britain is in a hurry to carry out her export policy. The Austin will be followed by 20 more export models (which have chrome trimmings and leather upholstery, missing from domestic models) due in the U.S. within two weeks. Another 15 are en route to Argentina. Austi-Motor Co., Ltd. has been able to get its postwar jump on U.S. automakers because it really never stopped Austin production: the Austin-made British jeep, a utility truck, was built...