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By the end of the 1940’s, the company also produced volleyballs, soccer balls, basketballs, striking bags, and boxing gloves, all made of leather. The first Nokona ballglove with Kangaroo leather was produced in 1957. Nokona was the first company to use this leather in a baseball glove; continuing it as a popular part of its lineup today.
The Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Damascus was not the only predominantly Jewish district in the present-day urban area of the capital.Until the devastating riots during the Damascus Affair in 1840, Jews also predominantly lived in the once-independent village of Jobar, which lies 2 km northeast of the city gate Bab Sharqi, but today belongs to the capital.
In 1988, shoe manufacturing in Israel suffered from the glut of inexpensive imports from the Far East. Naot Mordechai considered shutting down its shoe factory. The economic situation of the kibbutz was so serious that it became part of a study of failing companies at the economics department of Tel Aviv University. Ami Bar-Nahor was assigned ...
The Horween Leather Company has provided Rawlings with leather since 1929. [4] In 2003, Horween was providing leather for 3,000 Rawlings baseball gloves annually, and half of professional baseball players were using baseball gloves made from Horween leather. [5] In 2003, K2 Inc. acquired Rawlings. [6]
A stock A2K (Pro Stock select leather) retails for US$399. The A2000, made from Wilson's Pro Stock leather, is the oldest glove series Wilson offers. The A2000 retails for US$299. The A1000 is made from Wilson's top-shelf leather and retails US$149.
DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Israel pounded Syrian army bases on Tuesday in strikes it says aim to keep weapons from falling into hostile hands, but denied its forces had advanced into Syria beyond a ...
[2] [7] [17] As of 2003, 60% of the company's leather was used to make clothes, shoes, and accessories, and 40% for sporting goods such as footballs, basketballs, and baseball gloves. [4] Horween Leather Company supplies leather shells for footwear to the Timberland Company, Alden Shoe Company (their largest cordovan customer; it became a ...
An Israeli national working as a locksmith in Memphis, Tennessee, was gunned down and robbed after being lured out to a job last week — raising fears of possible terrorism among the local Jewish ...