Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wool & the World...
...July 7 issue . . . there is an article on . . . the wool bill President Truman recently vetoed. In this article, you make the astonishing statement that "wool growing is a small, uneconomical U.S. industry," and then go on to say that "it has many political friends in Congress as well as the White House...
...Wool growing and wool manufacturing is one of the most basically essential industries in the country. Together with food and housing, adequate wool clothing is necessary for the maintenance of life itself. It is of paramount importance, therefore, that the U.S. raise at least a substantial part of the wool used by its citizens...
While we were 75% self-sustaining as far as wool was concerned prior to the war, we must now import more than 70% of our requirements. . . . We are following a dangerous path in permitting ourselves to become dependent on any foreign power for a material as basically and vitally necessary as wool...
Since climatic and labor conditions make wool raising in this country far more expensive than it is in other wool-raising countries, the wool-raising industry in this country must be maintained either by protective tariffs or by subsidies...