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Other Congressmen figured that the U.S. could still grow a lot of wool, even though there would be some bleats, and that it was better for the U.S. even to lose some skin than to lose its head...
...wide intersection in front of the city hall was lighted up like a movie set by the flames that crackled through a front of shops. The place was completely deserted except for a small boy in a lamb's-wool cap, who stood weeping forlornly in front of the city hall steps. I walked over to him and asked him his name. He said his name was Hong Kiu He, that he was eight years old and that he had no father or mother. We put young master Hong in our jeep and drove down Mapo Boulevard...
...Worst or the Best? What people thought of Dean Gooderham Acheson ranged from the proposition that he was a fellow traveler, or a wool-brained sower of "weeds of jackassery," or an abysmally uncomprehending man, or an appeaser, or a warmonger who was taking the U.S. into a world war, to the warm if not so audible defense that he was a great Secretary of State, a brilliant executor of the best of all possible foreign programs. A lot of the charges that the State Department had housed party-liners and homosexuals had obviously stuck. But Acheson had the confidence...
...prices, on Christmas goods, largely because they were selling out of big midyear inventories. "But just wait until we do our next buying," warned a Chicago executive. "We'll really be hijacked then." Already, Decca records had spun up 10?, Mohawk carpets 10% (the seventh raise, because of wool price increases, this year); some appliances, e.g., dishwashers, were going up about...
Parity last week was so high that only seven commodities were priced above it: cotton, rice, flue-cured tobacco, wool, beef cattle, lambs and veal calves...