Word: wool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is what BOLTER COMPANY, in the Square, calls the all around gift, and with good reason. These slippers can be given to mother, dad, sister, sweetheart, brother, roommate, or anyone, and will be appropriate. They are Topps lambs wool, with the lambs-wool in the inside and soft lambskin on the outside. They are light weight, warm, and comforting to any worn foot. Bolter also has a store at 15 Milk Street in Boston...
...carpet industry, said James D. Wise, president of Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Co., Inc., last week, "has been shackled to a sheep for too long." And the sheep has given the industry a rough ride; in six months carpet wool prices jumped from 85? a lb. to as high as $2.30. In an attempt to keep up with soaring raw-wool prices, U.S. manufacturers priced their carpets right out of the market. As sales dropped and inventories piled up, three big price cuts in carpets failed to pull the industry out of its worst slump in years; production was headed...
This year consumption of carpet rayon will top 30 million lbs. v. 12.5 million in 1950. The synthetics, say carpetmakers, wear as well as wool, are easier to dye, and stay clean as long. They hope that the shift to synthetics will stabilize prices and put the harassed carpet industry back on its feet...
...Cincinnati. They buried him within touch of an iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin and the iron in the shovel that dug his grave were imported from Pittsburgh. They buried him by the side of the best sheep-grazing country on the earth and yet the wool in the coffin bands and the coffin bands themselves were brought from the North. They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn't furnish a thing on earth...
...Pont de Nemours), Union Carbide has pumped $500 million into new plants and products. Last week Union Carbide announced another whopping expansion. From the Prudential and Metropolitan Life insurance companies it borrowed $300 million to step up its output of petroleum products, plastics, iron alloys and its new wool-like synthetic fiber, Dynel. If it can get materials, Union Carbide will build at the rate of more than $100 million a year...