Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basic Materials: Aluminum, antimony, asbestos, chromium, cotton linters, flax, graphite, hides, industrial diamonds, manganese, magnesium, manila fibre, mercury, mica, molybdenum, optical glass, platinum group metals, quartz crystals, quinine, rubber, silk, tin, toluol (coal-tar derivative used in TNT), tungsten, vanadium, wool...
...science that relates living organisms to their environment. Reindeer were imported from Siberia into Alaska for the Eskimos' benefit. Unlike its close relative the caribou of Alaska, the Siberian reindeer is easily domesticated. It was figured that the little brown men could use the hides (much warmer than wool) for clothing, the flesh for food, sell their surpluses to help things along...
...British War Relief Society distributed 1,200 stout paper bags labeled B. W. R. S.. containing wool, knitting needles, directions for making sweaters, socks, mittens...
...diminutive Isaac Burton Tigrett of Jackson, Tenn. took on the presidency of diminutive (48 miles) Birmingham & Northwestern Railroad as a sideline to his banking business. Eight years later he was a dyed-in-the-wool railroad man, head of Gulf, Mobile & Northern, and going strong. Four times in the next 20 years Railroader Tigrett enlarged his line, each time taking over another road, until he had 824 miles of right of way from Jackson to Mobile and New Orleans. Last week he stepped out of the diminutive class, stood to get a major trunk line from St. Louis...
...strange ports that line the Cradle of Civilization. Excalibur's manifest was a cross section of this lost market: automobiles, steel, chemicals, machinery for Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut; iron, lubricating oils and tinplate for Genoa and Naples; an assortment of flour, corn products, hides, apples, wool, tires, lead, wearing apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive oil from Piraeus and Leghorn, china from Beirut, cheese, rayon and vermouth from Genoa...