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...WOOL COMEBACK is cutting U.S. stocks to lowest point in years as demand outstrips production. Low wool prices and reaction against synthetic fabrics, whose novelty is wearing off, has upped wool consumption 20% above 1954 low point, 10% above last year...
...national competition for the St. Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in 1948. The elder Saarinen submitted a formal monumental design; Eero's entry was an audacious, 590-ft. stainless-steel arch that looked like a giant, glistening croquet wicket-which he had conceived while bending a wire and wool pipe cleaner. A telegram announced Eliel the winner. The family broke out the traditional champagne to celebrate...
Ironically, George's increasing influence in Washington in 1956 was no gauge of his political position at home, especially in the wool-hat back country, where Herman Talmadge is strongest. He had been away too long. Georgia political leaders thought that his moderate position on segregation was an important reason for his most recent loss of political strength. Said Democratic Strategist Roy V. Harris: "If he had just made one speech giving the Supreme Court hell, nobody could have beat...
...figure for the wool-hats. Correct distance, Atlanta to Karachi: 8,700 miles...
...week. Man, woman and teen-ager alike, they were waiting for a glimpse of the movie queen (Grace Patricia Kelly) who was sailing to Monaco to wed the reigning Prince (His Serene Highness Rainier III). Two hours before sailing time, Grace arrived in a black limousine, wearing a beige wool suit, a white straw hat shaped like a mushroom, and a radiant look. Not far to the rear came a retinue of 80-friends, relatives, business associates. And then-tagged "Grace Kelly, The Palace, Monaco"-four trunks and 56 other pieces of luggage, including 20 hatboxes ("I love hats...