Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cargoes for export. With no passenger trade and with all Scandinavian and Continent traffic suspended, the port was far less bustling than normally, but workers employed (including crews) ran as high as 35,000 per day in August; warehouses were piled with grain, tobacco, flour, tea, rubber, sugar, meat, wool, timber, leather. At Tilbury Docks, which the Germans claimed to have destroyed Aug. 16, patches showed where bombs had struck but about 30 ships lay at berths handling cargo or making ready for sea. Officials admitted that as much traffic as possible had been diverted to safer ports...
...square miles, were fused the resources, the energy, the ingenuity which built an empire covering one-quarter of the earth. Here were created the sinews with which Britain dominated world trade and international politics for 125 years. Here excess capital derived from the exploitation of India was combined with wool from the highlands, cotton from the U. S. and Egypt, coal and iron from Britain, Sweden and Spain, to make trade goods for an expanding world...
Chief import gains were in rubber and tin from the East Indies, nickel from Canada, wool from Argentina and South Africa. Since RFC has only recently begun its purchases of strategic materials, these gains were likely to grow. But, for the six months, total imports were up only 18%. Result was a U. S. merchandise export balance of $773,927,000-highest for any half-year period since...
Died. John George Howard, 87, who 41 years ago helped Prisoner of War Winston Churchill escape from his captors, the Boers; at Johannesburg. He hid Churchill, who had a ?25 reward on his head, in a mine pit for three days, later concealed him among bales of wool, arranged for his transportation to friendly Portuguese territory...
...Sears reductions included: cotton piece goods, 1.04%; cotton clothing, 1.25%; wool clothing, blankets, etc., 1.32%; silk goods, 10.22%; rayon, 1.3%; shoes and other leather goods, 1.96%; automobile tires & tubes, 2.32%; electrical appliances, 2.11%; floor coverings, 5.19%; building supplies, 2.35%; furniture...