Word: leatherizing
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...especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...
When The Doltons Rode (Universal), by the same studio and director (George Marshall) who made Destry Rides Again, attempts to repeat that highly successful picture's formula of saddling a horse opera with a fresh script, riding hell-for-leather with a good cast. When elegant Kay Francis is discovered perched on a corral, counting steers and fluttering her false eyelashes at buckish Randolph Scott, the parallel with the picture which revivified Marlene Dietrich with a draft of Western air is unmistakable...
...than contract cost. Using 300 laborers and only four skilled tradesmen (a supervisor, electrician, plumber, concrete finisher), he built an $800,000 (architect's estimate) plant-new high school, gymnasium, agricultural building and remodeled junior high-for $550,000. His students carved, pegged, built all the furniture, tanned leather for office chairs, wove rawhide for classroom chairs, hammered hinges, lamps and other hardware from scrap iron, wove mohair rugs and draperies...
Into Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Benning, Ga., last week poured a stream of new faces. They were crack officers, detailed in a great batch of Army orders to join the new Armored Force. In officers' conferences the new force's commander, Brigadier General Adna Romanza Chaffee, leather-faced son of the late onetime Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Adna R. Chaffee, looked around at a wide assortment of Army insignia. Some, like himself, wore on their collars the crossed sabres of the Cavalry. Present also were the rifles of the Infantry, the cannons of the Artillery...
Attired in the white silk Buster Brown shirt and leather knee pants of his Master-of-the-Hunt suit, Hermann Goring last week entertained in the vast study of his Karinhall hunting lodge Karl von Wiegand. Month before the No. 1 Hearst foreign correspondent had been given an exclusive interview with the No. 1 Nazi, Adolf Hitler, who wanted to get across the idea that the U. S. had nothing to fear from Germany. The story was neither widely published nor widely believed in the U. S. So the No. 2 Nazi now tried his hand at the same...