Jones ' study focuses on smuggling in Bristol in the mid-16th century, arguing that the illicit export of goods like grain and leather represented a significant part of the city's business, with many members of the civic elite engaging in it.

Tandy's son, Charles D. Tandy, turned it into a leathercraft company when shoe rationing in World War II almost killed the business, and later expanded into selling leather and tools to make such products as wallets.

Indeed, he later recalled with apparent satisfaction that after that first recruitment meeting in Galena, ' I never went into our leather store again, to put up a package or do other business ..." During this time Grant quickly perceived that the war would be fought for the most part by volunteers, and not professional soldiers.

The elder Chamberlain was not able to provide advanced education for all his children, and at the age of 16 Joseph was apprenticed to the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers and worked for the family business making quality leather shoes.

* In Tim Burton's 1989 film Batman, the character of Jack Napier ( who later and as a result of this event becomes the Joker ), played by Jack Nicholson, prominently wears black leather gloves during his robbery of the Axis Chemicals business office.

However, some like Dharavi, Mumbai, are a hive of business activity such as leather work, cottage industries, etc.

It also manufactures uncoated graphic and business paper, coated and uncoated specialty paper, and casting release paper used in the manufacture of artificial leather and textured polyurethane applications.

* Business Class: This is either a full business class car with 2x2 seats, reading lamps, fold-out tray tables, and at least 1 ( 120 V, 60 Hz ) electrical outlet per seat, or this is a portion of the Cafe car with 1x2 reclining leather seats, with leg rests, reading lamps, fold-out-tray tables, and at least 1 ( 120 V, 60 Hz ) electrical outlet per seat.

He became head of his family's leather business, Breithaupt Leather Company, in Kitchener.

They were a prosperous Quaker family, David Richardson running a successful tanning and leather manufacturing business.

The venue first opened for business in 1977 as a leather bar called Chaps, owned by Chuck Slaton.

There he stayed for some years, taking over a leatherworking business from another departing American resident and running a leather goods stall in the newly-opened Camden Lock Market.

In keeping with the area's history of seedy business, the décor was black and neon while the staff wore leather aprons and chains.

In 1924, he and his brothers, Joseph and Archie, took over their father's leather business ; he helped run the tanneries until 1962, when he retired to devote his time to philanthropic work.

Lewis Henry Lapham ( March 13, 1858 – June 10, 1934 ) was an American entrepreneur who made a fortune consolidating smaller business in the leather industry.

The forerunner of A & P was founded in the 1850s as Gilman & Company by George Gilman ( 1826 – 1901 ) to continue his father's leather tanning business ; in 1858 the firm's address was 98 Gold Street in Manhattan.

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Some of the earliest trunks are covered with studded hide or leather and look much like the furniture of the same period ( which makes sense as trunk manufacturing was sometimes an off-shoot of a furniture business.

Gail Manufacturing Company began as a family-owned business, with six leatherworkers who made small leather goods, such as wallets and handbags.

Miles and Lillian Cahn were owners of a leather handbag manufacturing business, and were knowledgeable about leatherworks and business.

When he returned from fighting in World War I, Rudolf received a management position at a porcelain factory, and later in a leather wholesale business in Nuremberg.

He then went to work for his father's leather business, Berman Buckskin.

Dever was born in Woburn, Massachusetts and entered his family's leather tanning business when he was fifteen.

Pottery mass production probably ended a decade or two previously ; the rich continued to use metal and glass vessels, while the poor probably adopted leather or wooden ones.

These darts (" garros ") had iron heads or were of iron wrapped with leather to fit the bore of small guns, and continued in use up to nearly the end of the 16th century.

Local sheep farmers and cattle graziers supplied wool and leather to local tanners and shoemakers ( an industry that continued until the 1970s ), while metalworkers, locksmiths and nailers fired their furnaces with local coal and the alemakers supplied thirsty palates on market days.

The men were issued French helmets and brown leather belts and pouches, although they continued to wear their U. S. uniforms.

The Riviera continued with minimal trim changes for 1964 including the discontinuation of leather upholstery from the option list, differing mainly in substitution of the old Dynaflow-based Twin Turbine for the new three-speed Super Turbine 400, which was marketed as Turbo Hydra-Matic by other GM divisions.

The Fifth Avenue's famous seats, long noted for their button-tufted appearance and sofa-like comfort, continued to be offered with the customer's choice of velour or leather, with the former " Corinthian leather " replaced by that of the Mark Cross company.

Enlisted USMC personnel received a double breasted version with red piping worn with a leather stock and shako to reflect their status as an elite unit, although infantry soldiers continued to be issued the 1833 pattern shell jacket until the M1858 uniform, complete with French style kepi, entered service shortly before the US Civil War.

Rockers have continued to wear leather motorcycle jackets, often adorned with patches, studs or spikes ; jeans or leather trousers ; and white silk scarves.

Flight crews continued with the leather helmets, appropriately extended to enclose radio headphones.

Simultaneously it never abandoned its quest to develop its eventual replacement, and continued designing a new car, which would feature ABS, power steering, climate control, automatic gearbox and most of all V6 and even V8 engines as standard, along with leather interiors.

Pope Paul VI discontinued the use of the papal slippers but continued to wear the red outdoor papal shoes, which were abandoned by Pope John Paul II in favour of cordovan brown leather walking shoes made in his native Poland.

This increase in leather shoe production continued well into the 20th century and led to a surge in the number of retail shoe stores in the industrialized world, and subsequently a call for shoe polish by footwear consumers.

Under her ownership ECCO continued to expand internationally, and from 2005-2008 ECCO opened a state-of-the-art leather tannery and shoe factory in Xiamen, China.

Pope John Paul I, who was pope for only 33 days, continued wearing the plain red leather shoes worn by Paul VI.

:” The provision of a whole new system of electric generation emancipated industry from the leather belt and line shaft, for it eventually became possible to provide each tool with its own electric motor.

The Corps would eventually camp at this location for six days in order to kill big game, dry the meat, and sew leather sacks in which to store the meat.

These lighter Renaissance pieces eventually led to the development of the 3-pounder and 4-pounder regimental guns of the 17th century as well as the leather cannon, notably in the army of Gustavus Adolphus.

Leather and or iron scales were used to construct samurai armours, with leather, and eventually silk lace ( odoshi ) used to connect the individual scales ( kozane ).

In 1915 Robert H. Rolfs founded Amity Leather in downtown West Bend, which eventually became the world's largest manufacturer of leather billfolds.

Boiling water was poured over the boots, eventually soaking through the leather and eating the flesh away from the entrapped limbs.

All fine leather makers, including Girdlers and Glovers, were originally classified as cordwainers ; however, the term eventually came to refer only to fine leather footwear, including boots.

With wear and tear, patent leather will eventually lose its glossy finish, but will still be smoother than most other types of leather, looking almost rubbery.

Following his father Josiah's line of work, he became a tanner, and eventually became a prominent and wealthy leather manufacturer.

Jack eschews a " uniform ", instead opting to wear his street clothes ( though he eventually supplements them with a small sheriff's star and a leather coat with a stylized star symbol on the back ); his only " superheroic " accessories are his cosmic staff and a pair of tank driver's anti-flare goggles to protect his eyes during flight, and from the brilliant light generated by the staff.

On November 25, 1986, she smuggled confidential papers out of her employer's office hidden inside her leather boots, causing President Ronald Reagan to form a task force, which eventually put both North and Hall on trial.

He eventually abandoned the gaudy costume, substituting a bondage-style leather mask and outfit ( or appearing in a variety of disguises ), and created a simpler calling card: " Foolkiller / e pluribus unum / Actions have consequences.