Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than Ottawa itself. By Ward Market had been a going concern since the 1840s, when the capital-to-be was known as Bytown,* a lusty lumbermen's town. Here in nine acres of open stalls, some 500 farmers sell their vegetables, chickens, suckling pigs, sides of mutton, raw wool, herbs, honey, eggs, cheese, flowers...
...misses' skirts at a good clip of 400 dozen a week. By last week, Lee Skirt had upped production more than 200%-1,250 dozen a week. U.S. department stores were taking the entire output. Retailing mostly at $1.99 and $2.95, the company's all-wool and rayon skirts are a bargain that few competitors can approach...
...Back. Smart management has enabled Lee Skirt to take up rising costs and then some. Despite an addition of three inches to the length of most skirts and a 5?-a-yard rise in flannel, it is currently selling one all-wool flannel item at 15% less than last year...
...this Uruguayans can partly thank the pastoral plenty of their purple land. A year ago, things did not seem so good. Uruguay had lost $69 million in foreign exchange in a year. Wool, the chief commodity Uruguay could sell directly for dollars, was not so plentiful in Uruguay in 1947. Now she has a bumper wool crop and a wheat crop big enough to pay off earlier borrowing from Argentina and leave some wheat for export...
...Georgia's "wool hat" country, the Central of Georgia Railway Co. was as poor as its riders. Its battered, rickety old engines clattered from Atlanta to Savannah and Columbus, hardly making enough to pay their fuel bills. But last year the Central threw away its wool hat. It raised $1,242,527, bought two streamlined trains, the Man 0' War and Nancy Hanks II, plugged them with ads and free-excursion trips for children. Last week the Central totted up its gain. In one year, the trains had made $206,829, enough to put the Central...