Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wool production is off 20%; mutton and lamb supplies...
...there is a great deal more than opportunism in Tory support for Lord Wool-ton's plans. The relatively youthful, forward-looking left wing of the Party-the Tory Reform Committee-which believes in the practical approach to progress, looks upon them with favor. The big industrialists, who have largely succeeded the old aristocracy as the backbone of the Tory Party, are also more than halfwilling...
Some have learned English, which is taught at the camps, and read U.S. newspapers and magazines. The New York Times, which prints German communiques in full, is a favorite. For the most part the prisoners think U.S. newspaper stories are accurate, although dyed-in-the-wool Nazis are deeply suspicious, and seize on the most trifling mistake as proof that the U.S. press is full of lies. They listen to news broadcasts with equal distrust...
Blackface & Blacklists. A confirmed, dapper bachelor, Moss was born in Manhattan 57 years ago, of Austrian parents, quit school in the seventh grade. As a young man, he went into the wool-shrinking business with his brother Benjamin and with the future cinemagnate William Fox. As a young man he was also part of a blackface vaudeville team that played clubs and bazaars. Later the Moss brothers operated a chain of movie houses, and Paul Moss produced several Broadway plays. Rich at 30, Paul Moss retired, lapped up culture by "attending every lecture in town." He was no novice...
Rapee thinks that the game will stampede dyed-in-the-wool pinochle players, but that the skill required in bridge will keep it the favorite game of the experts. In family parlors, he admits, Check may take the cake...