Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supreme importance of the 60-odd mile St. Mary's River connecting Lakes Superior and Huron, and the need for a canal around the three-quarter-mile white water rapids. The first canal and a tiny, 39-foot-long lock were dug in 1797 by the North West Fur Co. to steal a march on the Hudson's Bay Co. This gave its bearded, fur-hatted voyageurs a quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan legislature asked Congress to dig a new canal, Congress refused...
Snipers and machine gunners have plenty of ammunition and food. They are warmly dressed for the damp, chilling weather -their caps with ear muffs are filled with kapok, their gloves, boots and heavy coats are lined with white rabbit fur...
...trying to hold all prices in line, the Administration ran the danger of successfully stabilizing inessential luxuries such as fur coats while failing to stabilize critical (and scarce) cost-of-living items. This is just what has happened. Since March 1942, general wholesale prices have advanced only 5%, as compared with a 14% advance in weekly factory earnings. But food prices went up by at least 16% (some food items doubled), which pushed the cost of living up 7%. This advance in food prices-the biggest single item in living costs-gave labor its most powerful arguments for breaking through...
...seldom gets extremely cold in the Aleutians-temperatures below zero are rare-but it never gets warm. The williwaws* chill the bleak islands. The men on the islands wear bulky, waterproof clothes, fur-lined caps or knitted "phantom hats" which can be lowered over the face. Coveralls and boots are standard outer wear for ground crews...
...protect Army & Navy fur-lined flying suits from moths, Westinghouse has installed refrigeration equipment in storerooms at airports. The moths are killed by a shock cycle which plunges temperatures to -17°F., then warms up to 50°F. Surviving eggs are hatched by heat, the larvae destroyed by a second below-zero treatment...