Word: wool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television sets, chemicals, shoes and special steels. The Europeans want to protect agriculture, cars, electronics and. like the U.S., shoes and steel. Also, the Europeans demand that the U.S. cut its comparatively high tariffs of 25% to as much as 108% on certain goods-orange juice, men's wool suits and watch bracelets among them...
...early as 6 a.m., trucks and bulldozers start rumbling out along Route 86, breaking the winter silence. Hard-hatted construction workers, wrapped to the ears in wool and goose down, are sawing, hammering and pouring concrete. Land speculators in search of property have driven prices as high as $5,000 for a one acre building lot. Money is just starting to flow in, but it gives every sign of becoming an avalanche...
...sophomore at a small alternative college in Oregon, Larry was tall, bearded, and thin. Like a more famous Oregonian, Bill Walton, he often wore a wool cap, flannel shirt, and blue jeans--lumberjack garb. Nineteen-year old Larry had just had his draft physical the week before...
...assess the impact of the front, TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof visited Bradford, a sooty Yorkshire mill town that once was known as "the wool center of the world." Bradford is typical of declining industrial cities with a growing race problem, and pro-front sentiment is strong. Amfitheatrofs report...
DIED. Carleton King, 73, New York Congressman who represented fashionable Saratoga Springs (1960-74); following surgery; in Bradenton, Fla. A conservative from a district he described as "died-in-the-wool Republican," he called for an across-the-board income tax of at least 25% and endorsed phone tapping in the interests of national security. "I think it's high time some people were watched," he once said in response to criticism of J. Edgar Hoover...