Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week began to feel other shortages on which the U.S. Army could not conceivably offer any advice. The shortage of wool inspired the Hickey-Freeman Co.. of Rochester to query its customers on their reaction to the elimination of vests in spring suits. A shutdown on private radio sets was expected within 90 days. On the West Coast and in Hawaii there was a shortage of Japanese chicken-sex-determiners, who used to help U.S. poultrymen by deciding which chick was a pullet and which a cockerel...
...Winter clothing must be light as well as warm. Best combination for cold weather: cotton and wool arranged in layers. The cotton breaks the wind; the wool insulates, absorbs perspiration. The Russians, who know their winter steppes, wear warmer and lighter clothes than the Germans...
...presents piled up: crates of eggs, of oranges, mince pies, pecans, a box of onions, a bag of lima beans, two bottles of Napoleon brandy, 5,000 cigars, a set of corncob pipes, catnip for the Churchill cat, a field hat worn by Prince Otto von Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook on navigation, a lawbook...
Commonwealth at War. Australia has done a pretty fast job of adapting her industries to her war needs. Basically a pastoral country, producing more than one-quarter of the world's wool, Australia had to switch quickly to heavy industry when war broke out. Already possessing the largest single plant dealing with alloys of steel in the world, the Commonwealth in two years stepped up steel production from 1,200,000 tons to 1,700,000 tons (U.S. production in 1940: 67,000,000 tons...
...spend 50% of the national income for war will entail a cut in nonwar manufacturing (not services) to perhaps 25% of "normal." To cut that much will mean civilian rationing in more things than rubber and autos. Next: wool, canned foods, sugar...