Word: wool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Free. The two prisoners themselves had reason to doubt that much was being done for them. Even last week, while Ambassador Tommy Thompson bargained for their freedom with Premier Khrushchev, there was no break in their prison routine. Then, suddenly one morning, their guards gave them Russian suits, heavy wool overcoats and felt hats. They were hustled into a car and driven across Moscow to the American embassy, where even the Marine guard did not recognize them (said one Marine later: "They looked like Russians"). They were handed over to U.S. officials; Ambassador Thompson briefed them on the cloak...
Some of the cries against foreign competition are louder than the pinch warrants. Only 52,600 men's suits were imported into the U.S. in 1960, v. some 20 million turned out by U.S. factories. Imports in 1960 of wool pants totaled 2.1 million v. 14.2 million made in the U.S. Moreover, from October 1958 to October 1960, the number of production workers employed in the U.S. coat and suit industry increased from 94,000 to 102,900 despite rising imports, and the workers' average weekly hours worked and total earnings increased as well. Though imports of Japanese...
...something of a clotheshorse herself, "Jackie has a completely American concept of fashion understatement. She wears very little jewelry. She buys very practically. She plans her wardrobe as a whole. In the fall and spring, she will buy one wonderful suit. She has never worn mink. She wears a wool coat over a suit or dress for lunch or dinners. She has one or two evening dresses-classic and simple and terribly chic, not startling." In the aftermath of the battle of the garment district, Jackie has vowed to buy only American clothes in the future, and will resort...
...Baucom and Attendant Walter Myers were admitted by a maid. A few minutes later they were joined by Dr. John Walsh, the family obstetrician. In her second-floor bedroom they found Jacqueline Kennedy waiting, with a white sweater and a tweed coat over her nightgown, a pair of white wool socks on her feet. She gave them a wan smile. "Will I lose my baby?'' she asked the doctor apprehensively (Jackie Kennedy had lost two babies by miscarriage before the birth of her daughter Caroline three years ago-a record that had curtailed her campaigning). Dr. Walsh assured...
...curb the swelling imports of wool and worsted materials, notably from Italy and Japan, the U.S. laid down new tariffs last week. They will replace a complicated quota and tariff system in force since 1956, which, a tariff commission official candidly confessed, had "fouled up the wool trade from one end to another...