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...statue of John Harvard, as in many of his other works, French handles the robes and clothing in a way that makes them provide more than a mere decorative pattern; the apparel has a structural function as well, for it serves to enclose and stabilize the figure and makes the chair upon which the figure is seated an integral part of the monument. The drapery, therefore, fulfills its function excellently, not only by creating a certain decorative and monumental effect, but also by logically unifying the various parts of the statue. It is interesting to note that the difference between...
...line the Cradle of Civilization. Excalibur's manifest was a cross section of this lost market: automobiles, steel, chemicals, machinery for Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut; iron, lubricating oils and tinplate for Genoa and Naples; an assortment of flour, corn products, hides, apples, wool, tires, lead, wearing apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese, rayon and vermouth from Genoa, pistachios, gum arabic...
...evening, before a crowd of several hundred people attending the Glee Club concert on the steps of Widener, other sympathizers wearing similar apparel carried a caged dove through the Yard. Amid the plaudits of the crowd, it was later released...
When World War II broke around wool men's ears, Great Britain impounded the entire wool supply of Australia, plus New Zealand's 300,000,000 lbs. For four months Britain sat on her wool, while U. S. mills which need Australian wool for apparel and blankets fidgeted and watched their supplies run low. The spot price of wool tops climbed from 82½? to $1.31 a pound, and still Britain did not get around to releasing...
Although the U. S. is the world's No. 2 wool producer (1938 total: Australia 938,000,000 lbs.; U. S. 436,500,000; Argentina 385,000,000) it is not self-sufficient. Relatively mild climate makes U. S. wool fine-fibred, usable only for apparel, draperies, upholstery, etc. Yet in the apparel class alone the U. S. produces only 70% of its consumption, had to import 94,000,000 lbs. in 1937. With the chief suppliers, Australia and New Zealand (1937 aggregate, 51,000,000 lbs.), now out of the market, wool producers today can see bright days...