Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cannon, president of the huge Cannon Mills, biggest U.S. towel-maker, called for voluntary price ceilings on cotton goods. This year's short cotton crop (an estimated 38% below 1949) has boosted raw cotton futures to 40.25? a Ib., highest in 30 years. Cannon feared that if cotton cloth prices followed suit, consumers would demand Government controls...
...paddy field in Korea last week, a squad of G.I.s fresh from San Francisco got their first look at a dead North Korean Communist soldier and his battle equipment. It was not an impressive sight. The enemy's uniform was a shapeless affair of sleazy green cloth, with string pockets crudely sewed onto it to hold camouflage of leaves or branches. At his side lay a 7.62-mm. Russian rifle, roughly similar to the U.S. Springfield; he had a Russian potato-masher hand grenade stuck in his belt; his conical Russian helmet lay in the ditch beside his rifle...
After standing up a brace of detectives who arrived at her Southampton, L.I. hotel much too early in the morning, Hedy (Ecstasy) Lamarr, 35, finally slipped into some white sharkskin shorts and a white terry-cloth jacket (see cut), to discuss her $250,000 worth of jewelry (none of it insured) which had somehow got lost or stolen. The gems, she drawled, had "great sentimental value...
...fall when they start bidding for fine-grade apparel wool (last week's auction was mostly limited to grade B stock). The U.S. will import more than 300 million Ibs. of wool this year; textile manufacturers fear that the skyrocketing wool prices will boost the cost of woolen cloth by about $1 a yard, tack an extra $5 on a man's good-quality suit by next spring. And last week the tight-squeezed wool market got ready for another pinch: the National Security Resources Board Chairman W. Stuart Symington said that the Munitions Board will start stockpiling...
...ordinary priest. He had a mortar hidden in his house and on occasion he carried a Tommy gun. At other times he lied, poached, attempted bribery and fought with his fists. Once, when he attacked the subject of sexual immorality, he draped the crucifix in his church with a cloth so that Christ might not be obliged to listen to his blunt language...