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...Mother Teresa's idea. Top-flight Fashion Designer Carnegie had whipped up the WAC uniform. Why couldn't she do a modern garb for hard-working nuns? Hattie's solution, designed free of charge: a simple two-piece, ankle-length dress in grey wool with a gored skirt that can be turned inside out when the fabric begins to wear; a coat of heavy grey wool with a Peter Pan collar and close-fitting sleeves; a small-brimmed grey hat with deep cloche sides...
...wild scare buying after the Korean war, commodity prices went only one way-up. Retail prices faithfully followed them. By last week, the big scare was over in many a commodity. A prime example was wool, which hit a 30-year peak this year (see chart). This week, when wool auctions opened in Sydney, Australia, wool prices were down as much as 15% from June, and more than 50% under February and March highs...
...letter on top written in gold ink . . . He was all dressed in a beautiful uniform of red, and had on a blue hat with a white feather. When Mamsie hurried to open the big box she found it was all lined with red, white and blue cotton wool, and there in the very middle...
...wholesale prices had edged lower again, and retail food prices had dropped 1% in the last half of July. Even houses-especially the older, higher-priced ones-were beginning to move down. Deflation was not a local phenomenon; in far-off New Zealand, the price of wool broke 70% in a week...
PHILIP M. WOOL WORTH Cassopolis, Mich...