Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They claim, moreover, that production is being delayed by great difficulties in securing plumbing and wiring, as well as by the considerable amount of landscaping necessary. The units themselves will be of only mediocre calibre, inferior rock-wool is to serve as insulation, and plasterboard as wall-paneling...
...that money went to the U.S. depended on how quickly the U.S. could forget the way Argentina's rulers cottoned up to Nazi Germany in World War II. For Russia had sent a trade delegation to Buenos Aires presumably to offer Soviet tractors, trucks and combines for wool, hides, and blooded pampa bulls to build up Russia's war-depleted herds...
...anyone . . . try to survive and keep his family alive, to furnish a pleasant place to live with bits of this and that, to manage eggs from wrongly fed and badly housed chickens, to scrape and tan animal furs for family use, to wash and spin wool, with homemade soap and homemade spinning wheel, to finish the winter evenings by the light of a potato-lamp (with its improvised wick set in melted fat in a hollowed-out potato!). The effort is sure to leave him with the greatest indifference toward the "literature of despair...
Later the Ranee, clad in a thick grey wool skirt and a sand-colored velour tunic, sipped gin from a Venetian goblet in her tiny, cramped studio, told what the Raja's cession was all about. "My daughters," she beamed, indicating a row of family portraits on the mantelpiece. "That's really why. We've got three gorgeous daughters (thank God for them) but no son, though God knows we've tried hard enough...
...label Fabricación Chilena on their tires, even though the rubber and cotton material still had to be shipped in. In Brazil's São Paulo alone, 300 new firms grew up during one year, to make such former import standbys as cotton and wool yarns, rayon, rails, leather goods cellophane, ceramic and chemical products...