Word: leatherizing
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Forty years ago, in the village of Kobiankari in Russian Georgia, not far from Stalin's birthplace, one George Papashvily was born. His father, being a man of great foresight, taught him two trades (sword-making and ornamental-leather work), and gave him three dogs, a colt and a pet bear. Thus schooled, George Papashvily, penniless and wearing a karakul hat, arrived in New York, having traveled steerage on a Greek freighter. "lit your position, frankly," said a Turkish shipmate, "I would kill myself." "My God," said the man in the employment office. "A swordpointer!" He got George...
...warned that a revised shoe-rationing system is coming up, since there is not enough leather to let everyone have two new pairs of shoes...
Most U.S. soldiers have tramped the mud in rubber-soled, rough-side-out leather combat boots (fairly water-repellent if coated in a waxy substance called dubbing); some had only ordinary G.I. boots with legging extensions (an extremely soggy combination); a few had galoshes. Most trench-foot casualties occurred because officers and men were still careless about dubbing and foot massage, and did not bother with dry socks or galoshes...
...their socks on bushes or in their jackets or helmets. In some forward areas, dry socks are issued along with rations. Now improved boots are on the way. They are the Quartermaster Corps' new calf-high shoe-pacs, synthetic rubber up to normal shoe height and leather the rest of the way, designed to be worn with two pairs of heavy socks. Production began in August and a few shoe-pacs have already been issued to the troops fighting under the worst conditions...
...heady smell of horses, leather, manure and stable antiseptics has fortified many a gypsy horse owner and trainer against the stress of staying half a jump ahead of the sheriff. Often as not there is no rainbow at the end of the trail. For little Jean Charles ("Frenchy") Pinon there was-after 13 threadbare years...