Word: leatherizing
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...fast as one coat of dye dries, another is applied, until the patient looks as though he were covered with a light, flexible coat of purple leather. Then he is kept at a temperature of around 85° F. The dye protects the raw flesh, and kills all bacteria...
...first six or eight months of its existence Nelson Rockefeller's office was known around Washington chiefly for its sex appeal and the brash energy of its occupant. Visitors were decorously received by a brunette bombshell with a rippling voice, ushered into a blue-leather-decorated office by a blonde vision. There they found Mr. Rockefeller ready to listen to any scheme to promote good-neighborly relations. Outside the office Mr. Rockefeller astonished official Washington by his ability to pop in & out of a dozen committee meetings a day, to write innumerable memorandums, to argue lengthily with Congressmen...
Mahogany-hued, leather-hided Colonel Oldfield is, among other valuable things, one of the most skillful "robbers" in the Army. By that word of praise Army men mean that he can find more ways to get needed materials for his outfit than a regiment of M.P.s and quartermasters could possibly guard...
Procurement of bookbinding supplies recently has been a particularly knotty problem, for the war has affected the whole industry. With the United States almost completely dependent on foreign imports for the best grades of leather bindings, shipments of such goods as calf, pigskin, Levant, and morocco have practically ceased; already one ship with some of its cargo destined for the Harvard Bindery has been sunk...
...square feet of leather in storage represents the hides of more than 400 animals. One need not fear, however, that all these animals died for the sake of the Harvard Bindery. Morocco leather, for example, is obtained from goats which are a staple food of northern Africa, and all of them would probably be slaughtered in any event...