U. S. consumption of cattle hides totals about 19,000,000 a year and the biggest individual buyer of them is the only woman buyer in the industry. She is short, blonde Sue Fitzgerald, who got her start as a stenographer in a tannery, now buys a million or more hides a year for International Shoe Co. Miss Fitzgerald, like most other representatives of big tanneries and shoe companies, does her buying in Chicago, centre of the packing industry of which cattle hides are a $100,000,000-a-year byproduct.
Speculative buying of hides, however, has centred in New...
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