Word: waterproofing
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Under her right eye, Eleanor Holm wears a waterproof beauty patch. She is so pretty that Ziegfeld offered her a job in the Follies which her mother persuaded her not to take...
...affected by changes in relative humidity, that shoes swell, pinching tender feet, when wet weather approaches. By using special tanning materials, he proved to shoe manufacturers that this foot-squeeze can be reduced two-thirds. He also demonstrated to shoemen that by proper tanning they could make a shoe waterproof from the outside, at the same time allow perspiration to evaporate from the inside 80% as fast as from a bare foot. After devising methods for measuring resilience, porosity, density of leather, he organized Properties & Uses of Leather, a national committee to study the foot comfort of U. S. citizens...