Word: wool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Serge Voronoff, gland specialist: "Last week I prophesied in Paris 'Monkeys will talk and men will live to be 125 years old.' I went on to relate that I have grafted glands on 1,000 human beings. I have grafted glands on sheep so successfully that their wool yield has been largely increased, 16 pounds added to their weight and their lives prolonged six years. Now I have a monkey farm at Mentone on the French Riviera where I am raising monkeys to supply the tremendous number of monkey-glands that the world will soon demand...
Constructionist artists have achieved stark realism by the use of silk, wool, glass, cotton and various other commodities in their paintings. One, a woman, put real iron bars before a picture of lions...
President Andrew G. Pierce explained: "An average 20% decline in wool prices entailed not only a severe shrinkage in the Value of the company's raw material supplies but automatically affected stock in process and finished goods. This, coupled with the abnormally poor demand for goods, tells the story...
...Wool prices declined last year because 3,060,730,000 pounds were produced in the world, 78,000,000 more than...
Thomas Dowse was proprietor of a "wool-puller's" or leather dresser's shop in Cambridgeport, where he lived and worked until his death at the age of eighty-four...