Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient Incas fully appreciated chinchillas; they wore the skins and ate the flesh. Sometimes the Incas sheared them like tiny sheep, wove thistledown cloth of their "wool." In the late 19th Century, a rage for chinchilla swept the world of fashion-and furriers soon swept the Andes bare of the little animals...
...Moscow the winter snow had vanished. Street vendors were selling daffodils at 3 rubles each. Gourmets could buy tiny hothouse cucumbers, small succulent leaves of early lettuce, tiny radishes and tomatoes. Women discarded fur hats and thick wool shawls for bright head scarves. The sun came out. The Russian Pashka (Easter, a week later on the Julian calendar) had arrived in Moscow...
...Buys. While Government heads sweated over pulling prices down, at least one Government arm seemed to be doing what it could to keep them up. The Senate passed and sent to the House a bill to extend price supports on domestic wool for two more years, in effect pegging the price at last year's sky-high level of about 41.6? a lb., some 32% higher than world prices. By virtue of the present floor under wool, which has kept U.S. prices above world wool prices, the Government is now stuck with 480,000,000 lbs., more than...
Everybody in Georgia-except Hummon's "wool-hat" boys-was relieved that the comic opera was over. But the respite would not last long. Hummon was sure to try a comeback...
...sheep and cattle had been destroyed. The prolonged, heavy snows had cost Britain two-thirds of her stock of young hill sheep (those which graze on the uplands and are later sent to the lowlands to fatten). In the lowlands 1,000,000 head had been lost. To wool-weaving, meat-hungry Britain that meant another crisis. The people were going to need every bit of stoicism they could muster...