Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suit? All right-but only one pair of trousers, shorter coat, no trouser cuffs, tails, vents, belts, pleats, tucks, bellows, gussets, yokes or patch pockets. Suits will use some 26% less cloth. Civilians will get only 10-20% as much new wool as they got last year...
While roundly slating the Motherland for its handling of the war, while turning ever more hopeful eyes to Washington, Australia has nevertheless bent her back to the Empire effort, making guns, mortars, howitzers, shells, planes, engines, parachutes, corvettes and destroyers in quantity surprising for a wool-growing country of 7,000,000. Yet, as always when the storm breaks at home, there was still more slack to be taken up, and Australia gave a mighty heave...
...nibbled, stared, bleated last week in a new home at Middlebury, Vt., where they are now beginning the third chapter of their careers, in the care of the U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry. Though they do not have golden fleece, they may be almost as valuable to U.S. farmers, wool-wearers and mutton-eaters. Their unique characteristics...
Canada, unlike Britain and the U.S., undertook to freeze both prices and wages at the Sept. 15-Oct. 11, 1941 level. Canada had tried temporary ceilings (wool, leather, bread, butter), but when it had to earmark half its national income for war, it decided to shoot the works. Its Wartime Prices and Trade Board has full licensing power (TIME, Dec. 1), by March 15 will have licensed every food & clothing retailer in Canada (some 200,000). But WPTB shares control over supplies with the War Industries Control Board, and has yet to ration anything but sugar...
...January, department-store sales were 26% above 1941; in the second week, a fabulous 32%. Less than half this rise can be attributed to higher prices. At their regular January white sales, department store counters were jammed with hoarders, laying in supplies of everything from cotton sheets to wool socks...