Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reciprocated by pushing an amendment to the State Constitution that would lower the voting age from 21 to 18 relieve the new voters of a $1 poll .. (When they became 21, they would begin to pay it.) Chief opposition came from Talmadge and his Vigilantes, the nightshirters and the "wool-hat boys" (small farmers) who hate everything connected with Arnall...
...civilians' gain is the U.S. wool growers' loss. Sheepmen have enjoyed two years of Government orders, because domestic wool has been preferred in filling Army orders. This large demand sent U.S. wool prices up 33% from 1939 before ceilings were clamped on. Now the woolen mills, trapped in a price squeeze between OPA ceilings on finished goods for consumers, and high domestic wool prices, will use more of the enormous stocks of lower-cost Australian raw wool that cram U.S. warehouses...
...dressed in one to three sets of long wool underwear, field jacket, parka, sweaters, woolen cap beneath the helmet, two or more pairs of heavy wool socks, shoe pacs or leather boots and raincoats. Yet we always seemed to be cold. More than once we had to sleep on the wet, cold earth in our clothes. That was pretty uncomfortable, but looking at the suffering infantrymen and the supply carriers who had to take loads up steep mountains and the litter carriers who had to.bear the wounded down, we could not feel very...
...folding, prefabricated house, so light (three tons) and compact that it can be moved from place to place on a truck trailer. Its chief feature is a new insulating material called Plastic Foam, which looks like dry ice, weighs only a tenth as much as rock wool or cork board, is fireproof, waterproof, soundproof. The house, tele scoped to 8 ft. wide on the road, pulls out to 15 ft. to provide two bedrooms, has a small living room and kitchen, costs $1,800 complete with furniture...
...buildings, trees or a complete scene, this is painted from blueprints on laid-out rolls of mesh. Rolled up, marked for reassembling, the mesh is shipped overseas to hide airdromes, tank farms, gun emplacements. So well has the mesh worked that it is fast replacing spun glass and steel wool camouflage covers. Boasted Camoufleur Kleiser: "A robin built a nest in one of our fake trees in Seattle. It has to be good to fool a robin...