Word: leatherizing
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...Soybean protein makes a fine, cheap (16? a lb.) substitute for casein, protein derivative of milk which is now painfully costly (28? a lb.). Three-fourths of the casein consumed in the U.S. goes into making coated papers, the rest into plywoods, plastics, water paints, leather finishes, etc. With soybean protein the Department of Agriculture is striving to meet a great demand for casein substitutes in housing and defense industries...
...other was Montana-born Helen Madden, 30, secretary to Leon Henderson. The well-complected girls became friends over the telephone long ago in the constant crisscross of Nelson-Henderson calls. They had reason to decide to get acquainted, as they sat in the green-leather-&-chromium lounge, munched cream cheese and veal sandwiches. They were destined for greater collaboration, like their bosses, who had become, by Presidential order on the night before, the key men in U.S. defense management...
...power, under the command of cyclonic Brigadier General Henry Black Clagett, who entered West Point (1902), when Douglas MacArthur was a first classman and who, like MacArthur, is impatient of sloppy soldiering, a stern disciplinarian. Henry Clagett's immediate superior and MacArthur's No. 1 man is leather-dimpled Major General George Grunert, in command of the Philippine regulars for the past year...
...ferocious wolfhound; a sinister man in black riding a bicycle hell-for-leather; some well-arranged surprise appearances of old faces...
...There is no leather or rubber to repair shoes. (New shoes, rationed, are of wood or ersatz...