Word: leatherizing
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Handbags were discouraging. Even in the bigger stores, like Selfridge's, Harrod's or Debenham & Freebody's, purses were made of imitation leather with no linings (price: anywhere from $8 to $20). Definitely inferior pocketbooks could be found from $3. Leather or reptile skin purses were priced from $40 to $60, and even the selection was meager in the extreme...
Brooklyn's Public School No. 12 first became aware of him when a fire ax came flying out of the principal's office. After the ax came a boy about 5 ft. tall, a stranger in P.S. 12. He wore a peaked cap, a black leather jacket, and yellow trousers with blue stripes down the seams. When a crowd began to gather, the boy took to his heels, led a chase through the corridors, turned a corner and vanished...
Next morning the Marshal and his wife were installed in a plainly furnished room of old Fortress Montrouge on the capital's outskirts. Below a barred window was the execution ground for those condemned by the Paris purge court. The Marshal glanced at the two beds, the two leather chairs, the table. Then he asked dumbfounded guards for a picture of General de Gaulle to hang on the bare wall...
...chandelier-hung Cotillion Room of Manhattan's Hotel Pierre, 250 diners listened happily (some a little fuzzily) to Singer Margaret Scott. She sang three songs and two encores. Among the calla lilies and white leather banquettes, the only wartime note was a scattering of well-pressed uniforms. Then the blonde chanteuse started to sing Lili Marlene...
Controls on the last will be lifted this week. Nor did it mean that some of the most pinching shortages (e.g., textiles, leather and lumber) will end. Army requirements for the Japanese war may well keep such items short for months...