Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...requests he has satisfied, one stands out vividly in Buckner's memory. It was a London bureau man's Christmas present to an English family. They dearly wanted eight pounds of knitting wool (two pounds each of three-ply Navy, grey, dark green and red) with two sets of knitting needles for a young Dutch girl who tends the grave of their son, an R.A.F. pilot shot down by the Luftwaffe over Holland. They had asked her what she wanted most, and she had answered: yarn...
Sheep in the Cemetery. This year, newsmen found the 656 tattered Polynesian survivors (there were also nine Chilean officials, two Englishmen, one Frenchman) living in one coastal village. The British company's 60,000 sheep grazed in the shadow of the ancient monoliths. The annual wool-clip alone was worth around $150,000. Ojeda demanded that Chile develop the island itself. Other Santiago papers took...
...wool products factory, a shoe factory, a tannery, a clay products plant, a box factory, a timber marketing board, a fish-filleting plant, a fur marketing service, a printing office, a housing corporation, a reconstruction corporation and insurance agency, a bus line...
...issue of American Scientist, Dr. Arthur F. Taggart belittles it to pieces. The Golden Fleece, Dr. Taggart explains, was probably nothing but a detail of Heroic Age mining technique. The early Greeks lined their gold-washing sluices with sheepskins. The gold dust stuck to the natural grease in the wool. The same principle (the selective attraction of oily substances for certain mineral particles) is widely used today in the flotation process of concentrating metallic ores. Jason, then, according to Dr. Taggart, was perhaps no better than a sneak thief loitering around a primitive refinery...
...Senate, Nebraska's Hugh Butler, concerned about the wool growers of his state, wanted Congress to have the final say before any bargains are made. During its whole history when Senate ratification was necessary (before the 1934 Act) the U.S. completed only three reciprocity agreements...