Word: leatherizing
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...electrotype advertisement to a sectarian newspaper, discussed it, was engaged as an advertising salesman, became experienced, eventually founded one of the pioneer Chicago advertising companies, Lord & Thomas, now Lord & Thomas and Logan. So successful was Lord & Thomas that Mr. Lord could refuse a $1,000,000 contract from a leather tannery when a guarantee of results was demanded. In 1904 he retired, sold his controlling interest in the firm to Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board...
...expenditure of a quarter-million dollars did not put Mrs. McCormick into one of the red leather chairs in the Senate. It simply gave her the privilege of making a formal bid for it in the November election. Between now and then another campaign must occur which will undoubtedly require many more thousands of dollars...
...would be a real loss to the world," he continued, "should Italy endeavor, by inaugurating machine production ... to eliminate individual craftsmanship ... to do away with her Venetian glass or lace ... her extraordinarily fine leather and stone or wood work." The "whole Ameri can people," he insisted, is "furnish [ing] its homes with furniture of Italian make or design." Indeed, "If we [Americans] wish to study the European backgrounds of the American people of 1930, it is no longer sufficient for us simply to visit England ? we must make a trip to Italy as well?
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...went well for several weeks until the pair went to call on a gentleman from the West, who possessed a brace of 45's. He found that with their leather holsters and cartridge belt, the "shooting irons" lent a decorative, masculine, frontier touch to the effeteness of his Cambridge quarters. He had heard about the unique sales arguments of the two vendors of booze, and when the pair arrived in his room one evening, he had an idea of how to bolster his sales resistance...