Word: wool
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...irrepressible Leftist M.P., an irresponsible Manhattan columnist, verbally cracked their heads together. The M.P., Emanuel Shinwell, had been scandalized by the columnist's report that Bracken had "found better British woolens" than London's in Manhattan, ordered nine suits there. The columnist's story was all wool but a good deal wider than a yard: actually, Bracken had brought some cloth given him by a "generous American" to nurses in London...
...green, red and black cotton. The Russians have found a method of planting winter wheat (in unplowed stubble) that enables it to withstand Siberian temperatures of 40 below zero. By crossing Merino ewes with wild mountain rams, they have bred a hybrid mountain sheep that bears fine fleece wool. Through their pioneering Institute of Artificial Insemination, Russian biologists have produced 50,000,000 farm animals from vacuum-bottle spermatozoa...
...food the farmer's busy wife served in his malodorous one-room house (where she also removed the grease from wool with urine) "would cause a riot in any modern penitentiary," and the antique collector's prized four-poster bed originated as a cubicle to shield man & wife from the curiosity of their growing children...
...harbor, Italy's biggest port after Genoa, was cluttered with sunken ships. The Germans had sown the dockside with mines and booby traps, had destroyed warehouses and dock installations. The Germans had stripped the steel works, machine shops, locomotive factories, glass, wool, linen, silk, even macaroni factories of their machinery and left the buildings charred and gutted...
...their endless battles with the Kommandoführer and his guards required patience and trickery. When packages arrived for the prisoners from home or from the Red Cross, the guards would stare avidly at bars of chocolate, coffee, wool socks. In return for small favors, prisoners would reward the guards, later demand greater favors under threat of reporting the guard for eating a prisoner's food. To Hélion. who worked as an interpreter in the Kommandoführer's office, there came a daily cup of steaming American coffee. (The coffee, sent to Hélion...