Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of an interchange on the President's request for power to control speculation on the commodity exchanges, a correspondent for a chain of business papers broke in. Would these controls, he asked, relate also to the cotton and wool exchanges? The President looked at his interrogator. Is cotton a commodity? he asked. Is wool a commodity...
...wool, from 34? to 25.5? per lb. ¶ Tungsten ore, from 50? to 38? per lb. ¶ Chinaware, from 45% to 25% of the value of the decorated items; from 40% to 25% on undecorated ware...
...little boy's suit knitted in green wool from Miss A. B. Esau...
...almost three times the size of Massachusetts. The tribe grew from 8,000 to 56,000 people. They had been encouraged to build a rude economy on sheep-raising; as the years passed, they accumulated flocks totaling over a million animals. There was mutton to eat and wool to weave, and silver jewelry for the wrists of their women...
...some Brule River promoter give General Eisenhower a fast shuffle with phony fish scales? If the General himself actually said that scant two-pounder weighed 5½ [TIME, Sept. 15], somebody must have pulled the wool (Cap, Field, Wool, O.D.) over his eyes...