Word: leatherizing
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...Patton has served with tanks and cavalry by turns. Before World War I he was a hell-for-leather cavalry officer. As a member of General Pershing's staff overseas, he joined the tank corps in 1917. He went back to the cavalry in 1920, emerged in 1940, served as brigade commander of the Second Armored Division...
...Phillips Oppenheim, author of 111 of the most popular novels ever written about international intrigue and espionage, got his diplomatic training in the wholesale leather trade. Unless this volume of his reminiscences is hiding state secrets, the nearest he ever came to the world he wrote about was a short stretch of propaganda writing for one of the British special services during World War I. The peculiar Oppenheim blend of dispatch-box atmosphere, femmes fatales, double traitors, and a tight plot totting up to eventual victory for the British Intelligence-most of it came out of Oppenheim's head...
...shabby Kentucky cabin with a floor of packed-down dirt, a door swung on leather hinges and a stick-clay chimney, a boy was born with the help of an old midwife named Peggy Walters. The boy was Abraham Lincoln, who devoted his life, against terrible odds, to justice, humanity and freedom...
Last week the only U.S. citizen known to have escaped from fallen Hong Kong told how a hell-for-leather, 6 ft.-2 in. San Francisco chiropractor played hob with Japanese nerves in a last-ditch fight to postpone the Crown Colony's collapse, leaving little or nothing to nature...
Canada, unlike Britain and the U.S., undertook to freeze both prices and wages at the Sept. 15-Oct. 11, 1941 level. Canada had tried temporary ceilings (wool, leather, bread, butter), but when it had to earmark half its national income for war, it decided to shoot the works. Its Wartime Prices and Trade Board has full licensing power (TIME, Dec. 1), by March 15 will have licensed every food & clothing retailer in Canada (some 200,000). But WPTB shares control over supplies with the War Industries Control Board, and has yet to ration anything but sugar...