Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received favorably from committee a bill by Oklahoma's Johnson for free distribution by the Red Cross and Veterans' organizations among the needy, of surplus government stocks of cloth, clothes, shoes...
...using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During the War it had large Government contracts for Army belts. A few months ago the company sold its business in suspenders, garters and other elastic webbings. The receivership for closely-held, 98-year-old Russell Manufacturing...
...High Altar in Phoenix Park the people of Belfast gave a fine Irish linen altar-cloth. Four of the canopy bearers were to come from the north of Ireland where Protestants predominate. Many a Protestant looker-on was expected, if only to hear Tenor John McCormack, Papal Count, sing the Panis Angelicus of César Franck. In the Mass also was to figure the holy bell of St. Patrick which, old, rusty, looking much like a modern cowbell, can still jingle weakly...
Male costumes shown at the First All-Union Style Show strikingly resembled the female garments except for a leaning toward brighter colors. New patterns in cloth avoided flowers, stripes, dots or other Capitalist commonplaces. Stressed instead were cogwheels, electric flashes, light bulbs, tractors, cotton mill spindles, atheistic symbols, airplanes, dirigibles and soldiers. In line with the Soviet Union's emphasis upon electrical development many fabrics represented stylized transmission lines & equipment, zigzags of high voltage or lightning. Particularly fetching and announced for either male or female wear is a new Soviet printed cotton cloth with a pattern of alternate red stars...
...told of battling floods . . . chopping his way through a jungle with a machete. . . . His companions sickened and faced starvation. In spite of the fact that his feet were rotting from the humidity he walked 18 miles until he found some Indians with whom he was able to barter cloth, fish hooks and soap for some beans, corn and mandioca root to feed his party...