Word: leatherizing
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...This yearns cattle leather supply is guesstimated at 23,000,000 hides, down 18% from the 1942 high, down another 10% from last year. Total leather production for the year will be down...
Sober speakers at last week's National Shoe Retailers Association's annual meeting in Manhattan gave the reason for the new crime wave. Said Tanners' Council Vice President Merrill A. Watson: "World leather supplies . . . can be covered by one word. That word is 'scarce.' " The facts about that scarcity...
...military, though it takes only 10% of total shoe production, will now take 30% of the sole-leather supply, 40% of the cattle side upper leather. Reason: the Army's new high-cuff boot, now specified for soldiers in combat areas, takes three and a half times as much leather as an ordinary men's "dress" shoe. The Navy is now consuming 28% of all calf leather. Civilians this year will get 18% less leather...
...Long after the collapse of Germany, leather will probably be scarce: even the minimum Lend-Lease and UNRRA needs will sop up most of the expected drop in military demand. In 1943, long before much "rehabilitation" was militarily feasible, the Army shipped almost 9,000,000 pairs of shoes for Lend-Lease account...
That left a mere 300,000,000 pairs of leather shoes-about half for women, one-quarter each for men and for children and adolescents (OPA and the shoemakers long ago began counting on men to provide women & children with extra coupons). Shoe stocks are now down to 200,000,000 pairs, a dangerous...