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...when the Reds pursued the Whites into Urga (later Ulan Bator), and remained to establish the Mongolian People's Republic in 1924. For the next generation, Moscow monopolized Mongolia's diplomatic and trade relations to the exclusion of all foreigners, and particularly the Chinese. Mongolia's wool and hides went westward to Russia, in exchange for a trickle of manufactured goods and swarms of political instructors. The Russians introduced their own Cyrillic alpha bet; Buddhist lamas and a few rich herders were persecuted to "free" the masses for membership in the new cooperatives...
Within weeks the Russians upped the ante with $150 million m credits and the necessary labor to build an oil refinery, a wool-carding plant, several power plants and some other industrial projects, along with a moratorium on $60 million of old debts...
...high style. Some of them add the drip-dry feature to crushability. Among them: Haymaker's flowery separates in a drip-dry warp knit, $29.95 each; and countless, nameless nylon shifts, $10 and up. The knits follow closely on Pucci's stretchy heels: Kimberly's wool dresses with jackets ($59.95), three-piece suits ($59.95 and $69.95) and plain dresses ($49.95 and $59.95), all in solid, placid colors with an occasional border contrast, are also relatively light and packable...
...wool suit...
...Administration has adamantly refused to be pinned down to any set of standards on which the question may be argued. Rigorous analysis of any explicitly defined defense of the present would reduce it to wool. A position that is only an intuitive judgement of parietal proprieties can be maintained only through fiction and deafness...