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Soon, Angus was holding his own sgeulachlan, and his fame spread through Benbecula. Neighbors began coming from miles around to his stone farmhouse on the moors. There, in the smell of burning peat and freshly woven wool, Angus would begin his tales. And everyone would listen, including his wife, though she had heard all his stories before...
...than Ottawa itself. By Ward Market had been a going concern since the 1840s, when the capital-to-be was known as Bytown,* a lusty lumbermen's town. Here in nine acres of open stalls, some 500 farmers sell their vegetables, chickens, suckling pigs, sides of mutton, raw wool, herbs, honey, eggs, cheese, flowers...
...misses' skirts at a good clip of 400 dozen a week. By last week, Lee Skirt had upped production more than 200%-1,250 dozen a week. U.S. department stores were taking the entire output. Retailing mostly at $1.99 and $2.95, the company's all-wool and rayon skirts are a bargain that few competitors can approach...
...Back. Smart management has enabled Lee Skirt to take up rising costs and then some. Despite an addition of three inches to the length of most skirts and a 5?-a-yard rise in flannel, it is currently selling one all-wool flannel item at 15% less than last year...
...Georgia's "wool hat" country, the Central of Georgia Railway Co. was as poor as its riders. Its battered, rickety old engines clattered from Atlanta to Savannah and Columbus, hardly making enough to pay their fuel bills. But last year the Central threw away its wool hat. It raised $1,242,527, bought two streamlined trains, the Man 0' War and Nancy Hanks II, plugged them with ads and free-excursion trips for children. Last week the Central totted up its gain. In one year, the trains had made $206,829, enough to put the Central...