Word: leatherizing
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...living is also made from an agricultural product began to fear not shortage but glut. This group? the tanners?have the misfortune to use as their principal raw material a commodity in which demand has no bearing whatsoever on supply. Hide production depends not on the use of shoe leather but on beef consumption. Cattle are slaughtered for meat and the hide is merely a byproduct...
...when the Government started to slaughter 200,000 half-starved cattle every week, the tanners raised a terrific howl. And they had a reason: in two months the price of hides had plunged from 9¢ per Ib. to 6¢, seriously threatening the tanning industry. (Shoe prices fall with falling leather prices...
...could be absorbed. Because this plan left the market with a surplus overhanging, hide prices hardly stirred off bottom. Last week it was announced that beginning Sept. 5 Federal Surplus Relief Corp. would buy all hides from Government cattle, eventually distribute them in direct relief as shoes and other leather goods. Hide prices proceeded to rally smartly...
...villages, pineapple and sugar plantations, out to Schofield Barracks to lunch with Major-General Briant H. Wells, review 15,000 troops. That evening he dined at Iolani Palace with Governor Poindexter. At a great luau (native feast) he received the great men of the islands, was robed in a leather cape which made him a member of the island nobility, did not get away until midnight to his bed at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel...
This hanging emphasized the delicate position of Chancellor Dollfuss' "Christian Fascist" Cabinet striving to hold the balance between armed Nazis and Socialists in troubled Austria. In Germany the exiled Austrian Nazi leader, leather-lunged Alfred Frauenfeld, promptly took Austria's first terrorist hanging as his text for an ominous threat: "The moment Dollfuss hangs a Nazi civil war will break out in Austria...