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...fire was first spotted by four Cambridge moppets and before it was over, 10 engines were on the scene. Firemen attributed their difficulty in fighting the bloke to the fact that the burning wool emitted smoke instead of burning cleanly...
...from "Sanforizing," a process for pre-shrinking fabrics now used for almost all U.S. cotton clothing. Last week, Cluett, Peabody invited a group of bigwigs to its Troy (N.Y.) home to look at a new $1,000,000 research laboratory and two new processes designed to 1) prevent wool from "matting," thus making it easily washable, and 2) pre-shrink rayon as Sanforizing does cotton.* Cluett, Peabody also showed off a new president: youngish (41), ruddy Barry T. Leithead, up from vice president in charge of sales to replace Chesly Robert ("Bob") Palmer who, at 65, had decided to take...
This is all very pleasant reading, to be sure. But what Mr. Danzig and most of his confreres apparently did not take into account was the fact that this was a real dyed-in-the-wool upset. It was not, as some would have it, the first exhibition of a superb, polished, brutal machine, squashing an inferior opponent. It was an example of what weeks of bruising work can do for blocking and tackling and a man's physical condition; it was an example of what is usually defined as "being up for a game...
...election night drunken wool-hatters and their blowzy, sweating women careened down the corridors of Atlanta's Ansley Hotel, howling and whooping. In Room 723, Hummon and his handsome second wife, Betty, listened to the returns. As the results from the back counties came in, they told the story. By midnight Hummon had an unbeatable lead over Acting Governor Melvin Thompson (who had prevented Hummon from taking over by force 19 months...
...Long Shadow. The 30-line statement barely hinted at what a colossus IAPI has become. Founded in 1946 to promote foreign trade, IAPI now handles every principal Argentine export except wool. It makes all purchases abroad for the billion-dollar five-year plan; it is the importing agency for private industries. Through its system of subsidies, it regulates domestic food prices...