Word: wool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PERRIN DRAPPIER, beadle of Domremy: "Joan the Maid was a good girl, chaste, simple, and modest, all the years of her youth . . . When I did not ring for complin, Joan used to ask me why and scold me . . . She even promised me a present of wool if I would be regular in ringing...
...school at the age of 14 eventually become a distinguished professor. Thinking back to his early years, Muir recalls: "I disliked school from the start... with its smell of ink, chalk, slate, corduroy, and varnish. The classroom made me feel as if my head were stuffed with hot cotton-wool...
...bales (a year's supply) of cotton, 913,000,000 bushels (a year's crop) of wheat, 657,703,000 bushels (three months' supply) of corn, and hoards of butter, cheese, dried milk, barley, beans, flaxseed, sorghum, oats, rice, rye, soybeans, honey, peanuts, tobacco, wool, winter cover crops, linseed oil, olive oil, tung-nut oil and whey. Except for these market-depressing surpluses, the consumption of U.S. farm products in 1955 would be only 1% less than production. Obviously, the real key to the farm trouble is to find more, better and faster methods of unloading...
...Exports-the sales abroad of meat, wool and grains that once made Argentina one of the world's greatest trading nations -dropped in the last five years to one-half of their previous volume. Reason: Peron's government grabbed control of all exports and crippled farm production in an attempt to squeeze out profits to finance an ill-planned industrialization. ¶Industrialization, too, utterly failed to bring Argentina power, steel, fuel, even such essential equipment as trucks and farm machinery...
Shortages have grown worse. Chrome-mining firms cannot even get enough foreign exchange to buy dynamite; textile mills have closed because they cannot get funds to import wool tops and dyes. The sinking state of Turkey's credit has scared off foreign enterprisers who might otherwise have taken advantage of Menderes' generous terms for new oil and other foreign investors...