Word: wool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mother Teresa's idea. Top-flight Fashion Designer Carnegie had whipped up the WAC uniform. Why couldn't she do a modern garb for hard-working nuns? Hattie's solution, designed free of charge: a simple two-piece, ankle-length dress in grey wool with a gored skirt that can be turned inside out when the fabric begins to wear; a coat of heavy grey wool with a Peter Pan collar and close-fitting sleeves; a small-brimmed grey hat with deep cloche sides...
...letter on top written in gold ink . . . He was all dressed in a beautiful uniform of red, and had on a blue hat with a white feather. When Mamsie hurried to open the big box she found it was all lined with red, white and blue cotton wool, and there in the very middle...
...wholesale prices had edged lower again, and retail food prices had dropped 1% in the last half of July. Even houses-especially the older, higher-priced ones-were beginning to move down. Deflation was not a local phenomenon; in far-off New Zealand, the price of wool broke 70% in a week...
PHILIP M. WOOL WORTH Cassopolis, Mich...
...lines, the consumer was momentarily king and could still drive bargains-well below list prices-for refrigerators, washing machines, TV sets and even some makes of new cars. For the ninth consecutive week, the Government's index of wholesale prices had dropped, mainly because of shakeouts in commodities. Wool had skidded to $2.15 a lb. compared to $3.80 five months ago. Cotton men, who screamed early this year that if cotton were frozen at 45? a lb., their profits would disappear, were now glad to sell for 35?. Result: the big makers of bed sheets last week cut their...