“CLASSIC IRON” Antique Tractor Show & Tractor Pull
Home Owned & Operated Since 1939! • 701-772-6611
Saturday • July 11th Tractor Pull Starts at 12 Noon Hwy. 81 North • Grand Forks, ND • Hours: M-F 8-8 • Sat. 8-6 • Sun. 12-6
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MORE SHOE FACTS • Because of stringent new environmental laws in Europe, the chemical composition of Barbie dolls changed to a softer plastic that doesn't produce as many toxic gases when burned. To show that the new plastic was non-toxic to children who might swallow pieces of Barbie, they tied plastic Barbie shoes to tethers and fed them to pigs. The shoes were retrieved at various points in the digestive process and weighed to show that there was no absorption. • In the 1950s DuPont decided leather was no good for shoes because leather wears out. DuPont invented an imitation leather that they claimed would never wear out. They called it Corfam. Not only did Corfam never wear out, it also never broke in. Shoes would not mold themselves to fit the wearer's foot like leather does. Instead, the shoes "wore like armor plate," according to "Time" magazine. Corfam did not breathe like leather, resulting in hot sweaty feet, and it was also more expensive than leather. DuPont lost over a quarter million dollars on Corfam shoes. BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW • Some islanders used to use the skin of sea cucumbers to make shoes. • Up until the 1700s, both men and women wore high heels. • The world's largest shoe size was 37AA worn by Robert Wadlow back in 1940. Wadlow was the tallest man in the world at 8 ft. 11 inches. • The average American woman buys about five pairs of shoes each year, and the average man, about two pairs. • Cowboy boots have heels to help a rider's feet stay in the stirrups. • The inside of a banana peel is a great shoe polisher for patent leather. • There are about a quarter million sweat glands in an average pair of feet.