Word: wool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four years in office, Democrat Yorty, 55, a former state legislator (1936-40, 1949-50) and ex-Congressman (1951-54), has moved from ultra-liberal to dyed-in-the-wool conservative. He has run an efficient administration, put qualified professionals in charge of big city departments, and reduced discrimination in city hiring. Like most of his predecessors, however, Yorty expresses paternalistic interest in the city's Negro population but has made little effort to understand its problems or anticipate its difficulties. Though the city's 540,000 Negroes represent more than one-fifth of its population, Yorty...
AGRICULTURE. Continues in substantially present form the wheat, feed-grain and wool subsidy programs and establishes a new rice subsidy and a long-term land-retirement plan...
...threat of it normally booms the prices of commodities-the raw materials of tomorrow's meals and manufactures. Last week, however, the world prices of such "soft" commodities as coffee, wool and sugar fell, and prices of such "hard" military sinews as copper, tin and lead barely responded to Lyndon Johnson's decision to increase the U.S. commitment in Viet...
...long-range outlook is bleak for jute, sisal, hides, and other commodities that struggle against increasing competition from synthetic substitutes. Wool prices have been clipped 18% in the last 18 months, complicating Uruguay's battle to end its trade deficit, and the price of rubber has skidded...
...Rouen, a movie filming in Scotland, and the Dutch Grand Prix. This frantic life has its little compensations. Fortune, for one: his income from racing this year will top $230,000, and Edington Mains is busily in the black too, producing barley for Scotch-whisky distillers, sheep for wool, and cattle for slaughter. He has his Scottish sheep dog, Sweep, who pines for him while he is away-and his flaxen-haired girl friend, Sally Stokes, who travels with him and tends a stop watch in the pits...