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...high because Dacron fabric still costs a lot more than worsteds.) But Witty predicted it would sell 16,000 such suits in 1952 against the 2,500 available last year. (Witty Bros, plugged the fact that its Dacron slacks are washable.) Other merchants, using blends of Dacron with wool, rayon, nylon, or other less expensive yarns, offered cheaper suits (John David's at $45, Brooks Brothers at $52, Hart Schaffner & Marx at $69.50). Chicago's Lytton's store had boys' and young men's suits made of a blend of dynel, acetate and rayon, sold...
Malan lasted only a few weeks in his first pastorate because his wine-growing parishioners failed to understand his urgent demands for prohibition. In his next parish, Graaff Reinet, a wool-growing town, he encountered a group of Boer children playing in the gutter with a gang of colored kids. Forty-two years later, as Prime Minister, he told the House of Assembly: "It was thus that the seeds of apartheid were planted in my mind...
...Since the ceilings no longer meant anything, Arnall thought it might be just as well to take some of them off. He prepared, accordingly, orders "temporarily" suspending the ceilings on numerous items (hides, calfskins, tallow, lard, animal waste material, vegetable soap stock, crude cottonseed, soybean and corn oil, burlap, wool, alpaca...
...this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow. She was a Norse girl, a beauty with "great, sea-grey eyes" and hair "unbelievably golden"; her name was Swan Ygern. Swan healed the Lord Cinqmort of a bloody flux, and so becharmed his wicked soul that he even left off his wenching to eat her beetle puddings under the Weird Oak Tree. She gave her mistress' daughter the dread effigy of St. Uncumber-to whom unwilling wives prayed that he uncumber them of their mates-and when the poor husband failed...
...Ninety-Mile Desert was a painful puzzle to Australia's early settlers. Its rainfall was 20 inches a year, which is good enough for dry Australia, and plenty for many crops. But somehow, nothing desirable grew there. Even sheep did not thrive: they got strange diseases, and their wool turned to coarse hair...