Word: leatherizing
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...plainly, its basic materials are coal, air, water. Last week nylon stockings, as handsome as silk, continued to be sold only in Wilmington (see p. 76). Meanwhile Du Pont announced that the nylon chemicals would be put to many other uses besides stockings: greaseproof paper containers, non-cracking patent leather, waterproof clothing, flexible window panes...
...from the Napoleonic wars to the peace of a South Sea islet. It also makes clear that flight to the tropical paradise will not be all coconut milk and honey if mother and the children are more given to urban ways than to the Tolstoyan delights of wood turning, leather tanning and animal husbandry...
Three weeks ago, when Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis freed 91 players from Detroit (TIME, Jan. 29), rival major-league club owners let 90 of these uncaged Tiger cubs amble back to cover, but put out hell-for-leather after the gist: 22-year-old Benny McCoy...
...between two mountains of conceit (Virginia and South Carolina), they appreciate a politician. When Jim Farley stopped off at Charlotte's Southern Railway station one day last week, the mayor gave Democratic Chairman Farley the city's key, Charlotte's postmen gave Postmaster General Farley a leather traveling bag and the Elks gave Elk Farley a hat which unfortunately proved to be a couple of sizes too small for his bald head...
...else and which Ernst Lubitsch does better than anybody else in Hollywood. Producer-Director Lubitsch, riding high again as a result of his success with Ninotchka, calls this one "a miniature Grand Hotel." But this time the improbable goings-on concern the paternal boss and clerks in the Budapest leather-goods shop of Matuschek (rhymes with hat-to-check) & Co. As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot...