PLASTIC SHOE SOLES WHICH WEAR BETTER
Received Mouday, 8.40 p.m. CHICAGO, Oct. 28. The inventor, Mr. Elliott Simpson, who helped to put the nation 's cars on synthetic tyres during the war, announced at the Nationai Shoe Show that he had planned to relieve the shoe shortage by getting everyone to walk on soya "beans, nutshells, and sawdust instead of leather. Mr. Simpson said he had made plastic shoe soles that looked like leather but wore niucli better. ' ' Dtuing the war we made rugs, carpets, treated fahrics and flexible wood plastics from soya beans and now we are making shoe soles from soya beans, pulverised walnut shells and sawdust, "'he said, adding that more than 75,000,000 pairs of soya bean soles were made already. The industry cottld produce enough to meet every shoe requirement.-
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 October 1946, Page 5
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