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Dyed-in-the-wool Conservatives who approve wholeheartedly of Britain's gigantic rearmament scheme accepted the new tax as a necessary evil, other Conservatives feared it would cause dangerous discontent, would sap industrial vitality. Declared Sir Robert Stevenson Home. Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1921 to 1922: "I have talked with many people and there are great perturbations. Unless these are abated in some way I fear some check upon the enterprise of the country." British Radicals, though strongly opposed to rearmament, were delighted that the 1937 Budget hits those with most money, tagged it the "Soak...
...Pont laboratory, experiments have been carried on with these and scores of other chemicals. What they hope to find eventually is a moth-killer which will impregnate a fabric like dye, will not be removed by washing or dry-cleaning. Moths eat almost any animal tissue-wool, silk, feathers, even leather and deer antlers. They will not, however, eat wool if it is completely sterile. Presumably impurities in the air and traces of perspiration provide spice enough under ordinary conditions...
...clothing company is credited with having been the first in the trade to go in for national advertising (1897), first to adopt an "all-wool" policy (1900), first to abolish contract homework (1910), first to sign a collective bargaining agreement (1911), first with the camel's hair coat (1912), first to guarantee color-fastness (1915). Stressed particularly last week was the company's 26 years of industrial peace since it started to deal with Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, potent supporter of John L. Lewis's C. I. O. Laborite Hillman, who got his start...
...were the styles of the times. Best advertising stunt in the company's history was to plaster France with $50,000 worth of banners right after the Armistice, announcing to the A. E. F.: "Stylish clothes are ready for you in the good old U. S. A.-All-wool guaranteed-Hart Schaffner & Marx...
Chief U. S. illusion, says Priestley, is the notion that Americans are dyed-in-the-wool individualists, and for that reason hostile to the Russian collectivist scheme. The truth, he argues, pointing to the easy way of mass U. S. propaganda, to the lavish Russian imitation of U. S. ways, is exactly the other way round. "That is why," he concludes, "America is the country of awful flops and sudden gigantic successes." In short, "the average modern American" is a socialist at heart, but does not know...