Excerpt from The Shoe Industry The book graphically presents extensive inside information gathered for permanent use. It is the purpose of this study to give the nature, history, magnitude, operations and processes, em ployment opportunities and demands, and the future Of the industry, both for those already in it and for other persons, and their advisers and teachers, who may be considering employment in this field of manufacture. Acknowledgment is due and heartily made to the hundreds of persons in the industry who have freely given information and suggestion in the course of this study. Grateful acknowledgment is made for special help, in most cases for a critical reading of the manuscript or proof sheets of the book, to the following persons and companies whose names are here used by permission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.