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Senator Stanfield of Oregon, "America's largest producer of wool and mutton...
...Republicans to prevent the election of a Democrat as Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee (see page 3) : "This bird from Maryland flopped when all that was needed to elect Smith was his vote. . . . The promise of the average politician who uses fine words in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the people is like a rabbit sausage. Fifty-fifty- one horse and one rabbit. The people get the rabbit and the great corporations get the horse...
...glory of the unclothed human figure, in which the Greeks delighted , will be severely disguised in wrappages of wool. Hockey, skiing, figure and speed skating will be the principal events. The U. S., Hungary, Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Sweden, Latvia, Austria are already entered. A dozen nations, including England, are expected to send their ice and snow...
Even as a child he had strange adventures. Melusine, the immortal elvish sorceress, found him daydreaming one day, took him into the forest of Acaire. There was a high place in the middle of that wood. There Florian beheld Melior, asleep beneath a coverlet of violet wool in her father's bemagicked palace, and, having seen the perfect beauty of Melior, all great satisfaction in mortal women was spoiled for him. When he grew up, it is true, he married four times, lived a life of extreme if elegant debauchery and committed crimes too numerous to note. But in spite...
Iron, steel, automobiles, tires, cotton, wool, shoes, building construction...