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absorbent cotton-cotton wool...
...bastards and Uncle Sam are pretty good to those boys. We give them the best food that money can buy, and the best clothing (all wool), and the best medical care, and, we hope, the best equipment-the best planes and guns. ... If they are permanently injured we keep them up the rest of their lives. If they are killed, their dependents are taken care of. They get furloughs and weekends...
...seared grasslands of the pampas, stocking up meat faster than the British ships along the wharves can take it away. Eight million tons of wheat and 3,000,000 tons of linseed cram the new elevators of Buenos Aires, Puerto Nuevo, Rosario. The warehouses are filled with hides and wool. There they say what they want after the war: something better for the plain people of the world. Better education, more books, social justice, freedom to come and go, more shipping, the growth of home industries, lower prices, more confidence, better behaved capitalists, domestic peace, freedom from hatred, more tourists...
...improve, if he can, everything that exists under the sun, and beyond that to create things upon which the sun has never before shone . . . the freedom to better the lot of mankind, that each generation may rise to heights loftier than any won by its predecessor." Already science offered wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass, luminous paint, two-way private radio, furniture derived from air, water and coal, shoe soles of impregnated carpeting, fluorescent lighting, packaged houses, television, autogiros, decentralized cities, lightweight automobiles and locomotives, air express...
Tempting Goods. In Bronxville, N.Y., a knitting shop proprietor, asked by a customer for the wherewithal to make a seducer, furnished her with wool for a fascinator...