Word: wool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cotton Congressmen disagreed. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank cried that the order would "never work" and was the real start towards controlling other farm products, such as livestock, wheat and wool. He threatened to lead a move to knock the props out from under the whole price control act when it comes up before Congress for renewal in June...
...Gullible Wool-Gatherer...
...said that "this gracious old gentleman may be entirely innocent of formal guilt, but he remains a gullible wool-gatherer." The clergyman also referred to Mather as "naive," and claimed that a man is known "by the folks with whom he travels...
...effects from the English home of Czechoslovakia's late Jan Masaryk, lover of life, who plunged to his death from an office window in Prague three years ago, as the Reds were taking over his country. Two of Masaryk's favorite sheepskin jackets, trimmed with fluffy white wool and decorated with black and red sprays of brilliantly embroidered flowers, plus a felt coat and a pillow cover, fetched ?32. Other clothing, including a pair of shoes, three net scarves with lace borders, a child's white skirt and bodice and a lace shawl, brought the total sale...
Atlanta's Rich's Inc.,which usually does not start buying fall goods until May, has already bought up half its supply of wool clothing, blankets and sweaters. San Francisco's huge Emporium is bulging with all the things that are expected to become hard to get-furniture, woolens, metal goods, etc. Said a New York liquor dealer: "There's so much whisky stacked on Manhattan that an A-bomb blast would plaster half of Philadelphia...