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...Reader Battle's typical coat is divided roughly three ways: tariff charges are about $18.50, U.S. traders (who bear the costs of handling & merchandising) get $31.50. The remaining $50 goes to the English manufacturer, who can then pay his bills for imported wool...
...from eggs and milk and butter? . . . I once tried to paint a picture, but the colors ran and the perspective was poor. I tried to write music, but even the dog howled to hear it. I tried to weave a piece of cloth, but the warp broke and the wool tangled. So I have resolved to stick to my cooking and beat my way to Heaven...
Birds & Banks. There were few areas of the U.S. which did not come under G-man Hoover's watchful eye last week. In Georgia and Alabama, his agents scoured the wool-hat country, quizzing suspects and witnesses in the latest outbreak of the South's hooded raiders. In Chicago, other agents dug into the murder of two bank messengers and plugged away at the Government's fraud case against Automaker Preston Tucker (TIME, June 20). The FBI was also relentlessly at work on a backlog of continuing cases, including the nation's only two unsolved...
Meanwhile American Woolen and other weavers had a new kind of squeeze to worry about-the synthetics, which had already grabbed off big chunks of wool's summer suit market. Now rayon was getting ready to compete in winter wear as well. Mooresville Mills announced that it had developed a winter-weight rayon that looked and felt like wool, had the advantage of being mothproof, washable and only about one-third the price of wool...
When the newsmen went to see the house, out in the nearby Virginia woods, they found a plain 14 ft. 8½ in. by 36 ft. 8¼ in. structure, of plywood walls inside and redwood walls outside, insulated with aluminum foil and wool. Besides picture windows and a cozy fireplace, the house has a small bedroom separated by a draw curtain from the living room. The living room can also be converted into a second bedroom. The house is heated by a system of glass-radiant heaters that plug into sockets, throw off infra-red rays which warm...