Word: leatherizing
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...born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front of a beauteous white thingamajig with four doors, a bulbous horn and red leather upholstery. It was the 1905 Locomobile. The salesman said it cost $5,000 cash. Mr. Chrysler had $700 in the bank at Oelwein. He borrowed $4,300 and shipped it home...
...leather shoes...
Married. Arnold Horween, Harvard football coach; to Marion Eisendrath, daughter of the late William H. Eisendrath, Chicago leather tycoon; in Chicago...
...Brown has resigned from the presidency of U. S. Leather Co. to accept his new position. Says he: "I am going to get right after this thing. ... As I see it, selling entertainment, if you have the goods as the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp...
...just the same as selling anything else." Mr. Brown's selection occasioned some comment in amusement circles, in as much as Mr. Brown has had no experi ence in amusement enterprises. But if he now knows nothing about amusements, he also knew nothing about leather when he became the U. S. Leather Co. head in 1923. The modern executive is not in frequently superior to and aloof from a detailed knowledge of his industry's routine...