Word: alpaca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after putting in his usual nine-hour day at the office, the old man hung up his black alpaca coat and went home. Next day, Death (of a heart attack) came to George Bannerman Dealey at 86. Ted Dealey would carry...
...powerful newcomer has arisen in the U.S. wholesale grocery business. Under the very noses of the alpaca-sleeved grocer barons, dapper, cold-eyed Nathan Cummings, 47, has fashioned himself a duchy. Cummings, boss of Chicago and Baltimore's Sprague Warner-Kenny Corp., wound up in twelve hours of feverish trading a deal that made him a real power in the business...
...outer garments should be designed to permit the escape of body moisture. The Army's tendency is to avoid furs: certain cloths are just as warm, about one-third the price. Instead of a fur parka, the Army prefers one made of tightly woven cotton lined with alpaca, trimmed with wolverine or wolf fur. On such fur, the Army believes, the breath will not freeze. Coyote fur, hitherto regarded by Southwestern ranchers as so much predatory garbage, is now declared by the Army to be almost as good as wolf. Army cold-weather garments cannot be standardized: possible conditions...
...makers. August's brother Henry, called Hen, lived next door, and in summers they all took a double house in the country. Little Harry went to F. Knapp's Institute, whose headmaster still wore "the classical uniform of a German schoolmaster-a long-tailed coat of black alpaca, a boiled shirt with somewhat fringy cuffs, and a white lawn necktie...