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Rain and the Wool-Hats. Then came an unprecedented omen. Georgia politicos say that "the sun never sets on England and the rain never falls on Talmadge." But now, as the Governor turned the first page, rain fell in torrents. Talmadge threw away his melting manuscript, improvised under an umbrella in the downpour for 20 minutes, finally gave...
Thus Gene Talmadge, opening his campaign for a fourth term, got off to a bad start. He had more than rain to worry about: the loyal crowd of "wool-hat" boys (small farmers) who always turn out to "hear The Man," was smaller than usual; of ten bands invited to add to the din, only the one from Moultrie High School showed up. The Palace Guard hoped this was the fault of gasoline rationing; but they feared that maybe Georgia at last had tired of Talmadge's witch-doctory...
What became of the wool shortage...
...There exists today in the Government stockpile of wool imported from Australia and South America a surplus bigger than any which has ever before existed in this country," the National Wool Growers' Association announced last week. "While the wool textile industry has been working at twice the rate it has ever operated before, available supplies of wool have increased threefold. Available supplies of all wool fabrics have indeed been so plentiful recently that some clothing manufacturers have actually canceled their orders...
Biggest reason for this surprise stockpile is that many a freighter hauling men & munitions to Australia comes back cargo-full of wool. Wool supplies available this year are now estimated at 1,100,000,000 lb.-twice a normal year's consumption. But even this mountain of wool may not be enough: some of it is earmarked for Lend-Lease, and outfitting a new soldier takes about 200 lb. of wool, whereas civilians usually get along on five...