Word: leatherizing
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Tilting back in a big leather chair in his comfortable Seattle offices one day last week, Boss Dave Beck of A. F. of L.'s West Coast teamsters, reminded the country that he was still very much at war with Longshoreman Harry Bridges. But the Beck-Bridges war is by no means confined to the waterfront. It is a battle between A. F. of L.'s most aggressive leader and C.I.O.'s West Coast Director, between the most powerful laborman west of the Mississippi and the most militant laborman...
Have you ever seen a bar walking? Well, a walking bar made his debut in Soldiers Field Saturday. Strung along his belt, like a glorified street-car conductor, was a row of leather containers. One held a little shaker, several had little bottles, and others had little glasses. He had many more friends at the end of the game than he had at the beginning...
...cruelty threatened to alienate even his own bodyguard, he arranged to shipwreck the 40 mutineers on a reef, succeeded only in losing a ship. At the Strait of Magellan his food ship St. Anthony deserted, was never heard from again. Scurvy struck in the Pacific, rations shrank to leather ship fittings, sawdust, rats, dead comrades' giblets. After 98 days of this horror, having sighted only two barren islands, they reached fertile Guam. By this time his men had chalked 85 murders against Magellan. Out of the 540 days the voyage had lasted, only two weeks, when they feasted...
Examples are shown of the types of work made famous by the Aldine bindery of Venice which in the 16th century popularized the eastern art of gilding the leather tooling of fine bindings. Also included are examples of the famous geometric style of book decoration fostered by Jean Grolier, French nobleman of the 16th century, whose library of 8,000 volumes was reputed to be the finest private collection of his day. Among the artisans represented are LeGascon, 17th century French binder; and Roger Payne, famous 18th century British book designer...
...Card of Merit and a leather wallet indicating that Struck bad received an "All America" rating for his work in the Princeton game two weeks ago, were presented to him last night on behalf of the Board...