Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of congressional opposition, Brannan was now willing to whittle his plan down to a three-product trial run (eggs, potatoes, shorn wool) and come back for the rest in two years. But even that was too much for the House. "I am afraid of the plan," shouted Fair Dealer Mike Monroney of Oklahoma. "If we can accomplish this trick of high producers' prices and low consumers' prices without the outpouring of billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury, then we have discovered something as great as . . . perpetual motion...
Armored Jeeps. In the four months since he came to power in a bloodless military coup (TIME, April 11), Husni Zaim, an ex-Turkish army officer, has exhibited many of the trappings of a dyed-in-the-wool dictator-personal bodyguards, an extensive repertory of uniforms and a smoothly clicking propaganda machine. But in at least one respect, he was different: his soft heart treated bitter political enemies with relative leniency. Last week, even fumbling old Shukri el-Kuwatly, whom Zaim had deposed as President, had been permitted to leave his guarded hospital cot for a "complete rest" in Switzerland...
...London, Democrats set up their own court and dismissed every case on the docket an hour before Republican Judge Louis C. Wool convened his court. Rival judges in Norwalk struck a rickety compromise-Republicans judged the even-numbered cases, Democrats the odd. Six habitual drunkards, up for sentencing in Waterbury, explained their presence: We were celebrating the appointment of the Democratic judges." Ten days," snapped Republican Judge Charles R. Summa...
When the U.S. Army asked for bids last month to supply 10.7 million lbs. of meat for troops in Germany, the most eager response came from Uruguay. Faced with a slump in the world wool market and harassed by the economic bullying of neighboring Argentina, Uruguay needed additional export business to keep its currency stable...
Married. Margaret Ann ("Peggy") Hoover, 23, eldest of the ex-President's grandchildren; and Richard Tatem Brigham, 23, Boston wool broker and nephew of New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll; in Pasadena, Calif...