Word: leatherizing
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...production, was ready for its final test dive. For four days Test Pilot Andrew McDonough, on a busman's holiday from Eastern Airlines' Miami-Chicago run, had had her aloft feeling her out, making longer and faster dives as pilot and ship got acquainted. Swaddled in a leather flying suit, stringy, 29-year-old Andy McDonough crawled into the cabin for the last trip, secured his capsule microphone alongside his Adam's apple, quickly checked over his instruments. Across the Buffalo Airport and into the air sped the Airacobra, tucking her three legs into her belly...
...President leaned heavily on the rostrum, threw open the big black leather binder, straightway began his message to the 77th Congress on the State of the Union. Outside the Capitol, roped-off on the stretching plaza, stood hundreds of people. Many had been there since early morning. They could see and hear nothing in particular. They were just there...
...Colo., was in town. Said he: "I came here to find out what we are going to use for money." If necessary, he vowed, he would visit every member of Congress to discover why he was getting greenbacks instead of gold coin for the metal he mined. Opening a leather pouch, he pulled out a pair of women's garters with gold buckles set with $5 gold pieces...
...tell us, you men in tweeds, can free speech mean much to the millions of Americans who only look in at the windows of Thanksgiving dinners and hear with wistful ears the solid sound of think leather sole on the cold pavement. Nine million farmers can assemble all right . . . to see white milk run gray in the dust of the road, to smell full grains burning sharp and sad in clear fall air while the government budget swings to its unbalanced balance...
Into the mails last week went Montgomery Ward's regular annual bargain catalogue (good until Feb. 28). It met a roughly 10% cut announced two days earlier by Sears, Roebuck (except on refrigerators). Although leather prices have risen 10% since August, the catalogue's shoe prices are down around 10%. Grey-goods prices have risen 15%, but its cotton sheet and print items are down around 14%. Farm prices have risen 6% since August, and these reductions should give the farm section of the mail-order customers a powerful lift in buying power...